Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

05 March 2011

"Maybe" = Darkness

8th Week OT (S) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Joseph Church, Ponchatula Jesus enters Jerusalem. He goes to the temple and drives out the ...

04 March 2011

A surprising #2 for H.A.'s audience

Lots of excellent guesses. . .the U.K., Canada, and India are in the top five audiences for HancAquam. But HancAquam's second largest ...

Dominican Student Brothers Preaching

These Southern Province student brothers are studying in St Louis, MO at the Aquinas Institute of Theology. These guys were all novices in...

HancAquam's Second Largest Audience?

HancAquam's audience is largely located in the U.S. No surprise there. What is surprising is the location of HA's second larges...

Coffee Cup Browsing

Madison mayor caught trying to conspire with WI's Sec. of State to stall the governor's budget until city employees got a new sweet...

03 March 2011

Ah, you noticed. . .

Regular HancAquam readers have noted and commented upon the subtle changes I've made in my preaching style lately. (Not subtle enough, ...

Hey! I think he's calling you. . .

8th Week OT (Th) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Joseph Church, Ponchatula In the Southern Baptist tradition, Sunday morning and Wednesday n...

Coffee Bowl Browsing (Humor Edition)

Nazi break dancing . . .they even have parachute pants. Fear the green gelatinous invader from space. . .fear it, I say! Face swap pics...

02 March 2011

Heroes or slaves?

8th Week OT (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Joseph Church, Ponchatula In the ancient Greek epics, heroes usually fall from the grace of ...

01 March 2011

What is grace? Five Explanations

1. from the Catechism (nos. 1997 & 1999) Grace is a participation in the life of God . It introduces us into the intimacy of Trinitar...

28 February 2011

Sinner says what?

8th Week OT (M) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Joseph, Ponchatula After his disappointing lesson with the rich, young man, Jesus turns to t...

Coffee Cup Browsing

Say it ain't so! My beloved Wal-Mart is knuckling under to lefty bullying . Sigh. Guess Dollar General will get my money from now on....

27 February 2011

The Perfect Priest

I lifted this from Fr. Z., The Perfect Priest The results of a computerized survey indicate the perfect priest preaches exactly fifteen mi...

Mass Discombobulations (UPDATED)

For some reason, I had a hard time keeping things organized at Mass this morning. First, the pages of my homily got mixed up. . .even thoug...

Expelling the smaller gods of worry

OK. . .this homily was a BIG flop. Don't know why. It just was. 8th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Joseph Church, Ponchatu...

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