Do you see what I see?

Wise men (and even wise guys) still seek Him...

Merry Christmas!
  

So Much to Do

I can really relate to ol' Snoopy today!  No homily to post: I'm way on a little vacation...

Holy Patron, Thee Saluting

I'm a few days getting this things up on the blog...but...Monday was the feast of my holy patron, St. Joseph.  In honor of his solemnity, I have to things to post: one fun, one funny.

On Sunday evening, we had our new men's group, André's Brothers, over for Vespers and dinner.  It was a most enjoyable evening: good food and good fraternity.  Not to mention I put together my best looking St. Joseph's Table yet:

That was fun.  This is VERY funny:

Sorry the print's so small; you can see it full size here.  (Trust me: it's worth visiting the page!)
   

Eye Contact

Timely, given what I preached today...

Embrace Ze Snow

As much as I like the snow, I never want to go "poomph"...

With Authority

I love it when the Sunday comics line up with the Sunday gospel...

 

Crazy?

I don't think you're crazy at all, Snoopy.   And you don't need to worry about where to store that sleeping bag if you take it out to use it...

If you can't tell already, there might be some more camping in my future.
 

What We're Eating

Whatever you're eating, and with whomever you're eating it, 

have a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving!
  

Maybe Even Wiser

What is truth?

For some reason, I'm thinking we should post this on the door of the confessional...

  

A Time to Dance

Even though it doesn't look or feel anything like Indian Summer out there this morning, Snoopy's optimistic outlook had my toes tapping just a bit this morning...

And then I heard about this fancy footwork coming out from my alma mater:



Help these two priests go truly viral and watch the original YouTube video here.  Then be sure to dance your way on through the day.
 

Caveman

So, first I hear a radio program this morning all about modern folks voluntarily "Living Like a Caveman" (you know, eating raw meat, running barefoot, and pulling their Land Rovers around with a rope--that sort of thing),  and then I see this in the Sunday comics:

Maybe it's time for another wilderness adventure of my own...
 

Counting

The "shepherd" in me finds this very amusing...

Suffering

From yesterday's funnies...but somehow appropriate to today's feast of Our Lady of Sorrows:

Begins

How appropriate that today, as we concluded 6 weeks with Fr. Robert Barron's study program, Catholicism: The New Evangelization, this would show up in the Sunday comics...

Awhile

Ol' Chuck and I have even more in common than I thought...

Papal Yurt

Breaking news from London's The Tablet:

Pope Francis to move into yurt in Vatican Gardens

01 April 2014 10:51 by Liz Dodd

A Mongolian yurt

Pope Francis is to move into a yurt in the Vatican Gardens, the Holy See announced this morning.

He is due to make the move from his home in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse, where he has been living since his election last year, after Holy Week.

The move follows his repeated calls for a poorer Church that serves the poor. Speaking in Assisi last October he urged the Church to divest itself of “worldliness”.

"Worldliness is a murderer because it kills souls, kills people, kills the Church. Without divesting ourselves, we would become pastry-shop Christians, like beautiful cakes and sweet things but not real Christians," he said.

The yurt, which was crafted by Consolata missionary nuns in Mongolia, is made out of cattail and bulrush reeds, Indian hemp and wormseed plant inner fibres, and is 20 feet wide and 11 foot long. Sources said it would have electricity, but internet access was more difficult to guarantee.

A spokesman for the Holy See said that the large, pyramid-shaped tent was completely weather-proof and “the same size the Mongolians generally use for their families”, but added that the Pope would continue to use the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace to receive visiting diplomats and other guests.

This gets me thinking: maybe the Holy Father would like to go out camping one of these days...

Taxing

I see that I wasn't the only one who decided that today was as good a day as any to do a little math and "render unto Caesar...

 

Coffee

I'm posting this under "Funnies"...but it isn't exactly funny.  Suddenly, trying to drink less/go without coffee during Lent seems much more poignant.  And to think that this strip first appeared back on March 30, 1967...

Sigh.

  

Snooze

A good reason why I sleep alone...and why I give up what I do for Lent...