15 July 2013

BYOS: Bring Your Own Sword

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St. Bonaventure  Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP  St. Dominic Church, NOLA  It's bad enough that Jesus lets us in on his little secret:...
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Mapping the Squirrel Brain of a Dominican Friar

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Here's how my Squirrel Brain works. . . Writing a homily for the 5.30pm Mass today. . .I hear voices down in the piazza. . .I think:...
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13 July 2013

Dominican Arts

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A new ministry for the Province of St. Martin de Porres! Dominican Arts & Artists Our very own fra. Cristobal Torres, OP is feature...
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11 July 2013

How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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25 High-brow jokes .  This is my favorite: 18. Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to ...
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07 July 2013

"The risk of activism. . .is an ever-present danger."

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from Pope Francis' homily to seminarians and religious novices: Dear seminarians, dear novices, dear young people discerning your...
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06 July 2013

Nihilism, or How We Become Useless Eaters

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The post immediately below this one provoked a few emails about the definition of "nihilism."  Since I'm spending my days hi...
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05 July 2013

Massive Amnesia, or the Pernicious Ideology of Nihilism

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from Pope Francis' new encyclical, Lumen fidei : 25. Today more than ever, we need to be reminded of this bond between faith and t...
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03 July 2013

Translation Crowdsourcing, or Attention Latin Geeks!

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Help me with translating these four phrases/sentences into Latin: 1). First Principles of Preaching 2). The Preacher preaches...
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29 June 2013

The dead bury the dead

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NB. Deacons preaching this weekend. So, here's a homily of mine from 2007. . .a little Vintage Fr. Philip. 13 th Sunday OT 2013 Fr...
28 June 2013

Squirrels, nuns, and fried chicken

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This will be my final weekend as Parochial Vicar for St. Dominic Church.   Early Monday morning I will head north to spend a few weeks...
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27 June 2013

The storm's debris

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St. Cyril of Alexandria  Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP  St. Dominic, NOLA  We pick up where we left off yesterday with Jesus telling the ...
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26 June 2013

Why am I not comforted?

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No worries, Religious Bigots. . .errrrr. . .People, B.O.'s got your back* : “On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americ...
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Are you a false prophet?

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12th Week OT (W)  Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP  St. Dominic, NOLA  The Christ's Herald, John the Baptist, has been on the Church'...
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24 June 2013

Why does the Christ need a herald?

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NB. Yesterday's homily took me about five hrs. to wring from my brain.  I think I sprained something. Just wasn't up to the task t...

New Dominican Priests!

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Congratulations to the Rev. Frs. Augustine Dermond, OP and Thomas Schaefgen, OP who were ordained to the priesthood this last Saturday!  ...