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

14 November 2013

We must correct the Apostles' Creed!

Evangelical theologians call for the Apostles' Creed to be amended to exclude the sentence, "He descended into Hell." ...

11 November 2013

An Exercise in Style

Here's how I'm torturing. . . ermmm . . .teaching my pre-theologians a few in lessons in style. . . 1. Take a reasonably compl...

10 November 2013

"All of His children are alive!

32nd Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA The Sadducees pose a difficult theological question to Jesus...

Gratitude

As always. . .I am both grateful for and humbled by the generosity of HA readers. Recent activity on the Wish List confirms my long-...

Medjugorje still not legit

The Papal Nuncio to the U.S. sent a letter last week to our bishops reminding them that Medjugorje as a site of an alleged Marian apparit...

Medio Ecclesiae: Music for the New Evangelization

Eastern Province Dominican students cut an album! Recorded in historic St. Dominic’s Church in downtown Washington, D.C., the friars ...

Court rules against B.O.'s contraception mandate

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals hands B.O.'s anti-Catholic power grab another defeat on the legal merits of his contraceptive ma...

05 November 2013

Rejoice, endure, persevere

31st Week OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Dominic Church, NOLA “One by one, they all began to excuse themselves.” That is the ...

R.I.P.

One of our Greats has died. . . Fr. Joseph Konkel, OP, long-time pastor of Holy Rosary Church in Houston, TX. Fr. Joe was also pas...

03 November 2013

Do you seek to know who Jesus is? (updated)

(An edited version of the 2007 homily I posted earlier. . .) UPDATE: I ended up ditching this text and preaching off-the-cuff. Don't...

Where Catholic preaching needs to go. . .?

One of my holiday/summer projects is to reconfigure the homiletics program at NDS. In my hubris, I've concluded that the problem wi...

02 November 2013

Sunday Dinner for the friars

For the first time since. . .what?. . .2008. . .I'm cooking Sunday dinner for the friars! We're having: Chicken Provence (bak...

01 November 2013

Nuncio Visits NDS!

A visit from the Papal Nuncio! Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Papal Nuncio to the U.S. celebrated Mass at Notre Dame Seminary on T...

Bound to Happen

Well, there's a First Time for Everything, I suppose. . . Seminarian Brad Doyle goes to a Halloween party dressed up as. . .Me. (s...

31 October 2013

3,000 a year!

These numbers are a bit unsettling! The secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic ...

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