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

30 March 2013

A Prayer for the Easter Season

An Easter Gratitude Prayer (To be prayed especially btw now and Pentecost Sunday): Father, our Abundant Provider and generous Lord: In ...

Good Friday homily???

OK. . .curiousity is getting the better of me: My Good Friday homily got no response at all from the congregation, from Facebook, or f...

A little Holy Saturday docility seems to be in order

For all those freakin' out about Pope Francis and his rubric-breaking Holy Thursday liturgy, please take a moment. . .read, reflect, pra...

29 March 2013

The Cross: do you understand?

One question : do you really, truly understand what Good Friday is all about? "I do not wish to add too many words. One word should ...

He's the Holy Father!

No one (in his right mind) would ever accuse me of being loosey-goosey with the rubrics. I've been on the receiving end of more cleric...

. . .to be buried with Christ

Good Friday 2013 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA His tomb is close by. Joseph of Arimathea, the one who first came ...

"Post birth abortion"

When we choose sin--especially the darkest of sins--over and over again, the Darkness starts to look like the Light, and we are capable of ...

28 March 2013

What Holy Thursday teaches us. . .

Office of Readings: Holy Thursday Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA All that we read and hear read in these Holy Thur...

27 March 2013

Keeping Scandals Quiet. . .for the children

Oh! If only women could be TV producers! If only married men could be TV hosts! None of this would've ever happened. . . yea, right . ...

A new article from HPR

Check out the most issue of Homiletics and Pastoral Review. . . My friend, Ann "Not a Mushroom" Morrill,* has published a wonder...

Just let it go

NB. Didn't get to preach this one. . .today's Mass was for the schoolchildren of St. Dominic's. I didn't know this. . .so, I...

26 March 2013

Books!

Many mendicant thanks to the generous soul who sent me Diogenes Allen's Spiritual Theology . FYI: someone bought two books from the...

On the feminist use of the colon mark

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Cheap-got Doubt

NB. Today is my "day off." No classes today at the seminary. Cleaning, laundry, errands, and an afternoon of catching up on readin...

25 March 2013

Pope Francis isn't a garden statue

Fr. Longenecker has it exactly right about the media's obsession with F1's poverty and simplicity: . . .the vast crowds (of mo...

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