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

18 May 2013

Update for Next Week

No blogging this next week. . . Our provincial assembly starts in St Louis on Monday, May 20th and runs through Thursday, May 23rd. ...

God keeps His promises: the Holy Spirit!

NB. There's a 63.5% chance that I will revise this one in the morning. Me h. Pentecost Sunday (C) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St...

17 May 2013

How do you love the Shepherd?

7th Week of Easter (F) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA I always find this reading from John a little embarr...

From terrorist to teen idol

The surviving Boston Marathon Terrorist has become a "teen idol." How? Defiance of authority — adolescent rebellion against...

16 May 2013

We've returned to the Golden Calf. . .

Ad dressing four new ambassador s to the Vatican, Pope Francis hits one ou t of the park! Certain pathologies are increasing, with th...

We must be saints

NB. Well, this one was a bust. Normally, my daily homilies are exactly three pages long. This one was three plus two lines on a fourth....

Papal Catholicity Update

Is the Pope still Catholic? Let's see. . . Liberation theologians extol him, but between him and them there is a chasm. The progr...

15 May 2013

Your word is Truth

7th Week of Easter (W) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St. Dominic Church, NOLA If Truth were a commodity—like cotton or oil—its stoc...

13 May 2013

Brave New World

The Laptop arrived today! Deo gratis! [with apol ogies to the ever-vigilant Latinists] It uses Windows 8. . .and this means it will tak...

12 May 2013

Why are you standing there looking at the sky?

NB. Deacons preaching this Sunday. Here's an Ascension homily from 2006: The Ascension of the Lord (C) Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP ...

11 May 2013

Irrational, self-deceived, repressed, and arrogant

NB. The Laptop is sitting on a boat in Port of Shanghai, China. . .so, here's a Roman homily from 2009. 6th Week of Easter (S) Fr. P...

10 May 2013

No, Sister, the nature of authority and obedience hasn't changed since Vatican II. . .

Francis Throws Down the Gauntlet to Religious Pope Francis has begun his assault against the secularization of religious life, attacki...

08 May 2013

Pope Francis Catholicity Update

This Just In. . . The Pope is Still Catholic . . . Fr. Z. translates part of Pope Francis' address to an international gathering o...

Laptop Update

I wrote to TOSHIBA Customer Service to ask if there's anything I could do to speed delivery of my laptop. Their response: "So...

06 May 2013

A deadly business

NB. Adapted from a 2008 homily 6th Week of Easter (M) Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Dominic Church, NOLA Good writers hate clichés, o...

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