If there are any Jews who read this blog (I doubt it), Happy Passover.Passover was an interesting concept for me to grasp in order to understand the catholic doctrine of Eucharistic Sacrifice. An important and oft-neglected doctrine in this day and age.Jews would slaughter the lamb and partake in it's flesh as a meal to celebrate the propitiation of sin and to partake in the … [Read more...]
Rosary and Rushing Aroung
I've been rushing around with work and school and a thousand (read 3) essays piling up. I haven't found much time for anything recently except the completion of vain and meaningless essays for school and sin. So it hasn't been a good start to holy week. After a year of being Catholic (this saturday) I still find the most annoying thing in the Church is that there's never … [Read more...]
Death, Sparrows, Tooth Decay, and The Jesuits
I've heard this story like 5 times in the last month and apparently read it last year in Medieval British history but had forgotten it. In A.D. 627, King Edwin was trying to decide whether to become a Christian or not, and so he conducted a little council wherein he asked all his advisors whether he should or not. "Another of the king's chief men, approving of his words and … [Read more...]
Weekend Musings
I used this verse in a debate the other day and I found it interesting."So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in … [Read more...]
Putting the Intellectum back into: Fides quarens intellectum
I discussed with a friend the other day my "rationalism". Instead of trying to defend how I function, rather I wanted to try to explain it. When dealing with infidels, you cannot use the Bible. As an Evangelical we learned how 'historically accurate' the bible was. Indeed Homer's Illiad might be historically reliable, but this doesn't mean Apollo played a role in the fight. … [Read more...]