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From today’s Office of Readings, a homily of St. Gregory Nazianzen: Is it not God who asks you now in your turn to show yourself generous above all other creatures and for the sake of all other creatures? Because we have received from him so many wonderful gifts, will we not be ashamed to refuse…

Forgot to mention that a couple of weeks ago, we went out and saw The Savages – the dramedy starring Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman about a brother and sister called into service to care for their aged, increasingly infirm father. (It was a choice between that an There Will Be Blood, and I…

….being to wear People out, we began Saturday, first with a visit to the Y, where they played and I ran and I assisted a large naked black woman who’d forgotten her glasses in reading the scale in the dressing room.  She’d lost seven pounds and was very pleased, justifiably. Congratulations and gratitude were exchanged…

See? Behind the girl on the left? A little bit of grey sweater and brown hair? Yeah. I knew that of the many shots the photographer shot during Mass, a version of this would make it – the little girl with the ashes peering over the pew was too good a shot – she probably…

Today’s GA text, translated by Teresa Benedetta In placing ashes on the head of the faithful, the celebrant says: “Remember that you are dust and, to dust you will return” (cfr Gen 3,19), or repeats Jesus’s exhortation: “Repent and believe in the Gospel” (cfr Mk 1,15). Both formulas are reminders of the truth of human…

Pope Leo the Great: Therefore, dearly-beloved, seeing that, as we are taught by our Redeemer’s precept, “man lives not in bread alone, but in every word of God ,” and it is right that Christian people, whatever the amount of their abstinence, should rather desire to satisfy themselves with the “Word of God” than with…

So much for that mega-post below.  I’ll try again soon. As we look to Ash Wednesday, a few Lent links. Practiced blogosphere surfers will have already seen them, but nonetheless: Marcel LeJeune’s well-done summary at Aggie Catholics NCR(egister’s) suggestions 40 Ways to Improve Your Lent The Pope’s Lenten Message which focuses on almsgiving, very powerfully. The Internet…

In which I try to haul in recent reads and views and listens. It’s a snow day here, so at the moment little boys are filling the house with sounds of knights and Legos and cars. Some time this afternoon, they’ll be packed up and sent outside for a while with their sister in charge, who…

Just a few notes on the death of Legionary founder Marciel Maciel: 1. There is great mystery as to where Maciel was when he died. Various rumors have been passed around, but the LC says nothing more specific than in the United States.  The NYTimes says he died in Houston. 2. The death notice on the official page says…

Sandro Magister reprints an article from L’Osservatore Romano from a long-time missionary in Kenya. Also, at Inside Catholic Laurance Alvarado conveys a Capuchin’s first-hand report of the destruction wrought by anti-Christian violence in December in the region of Orissa, in India.
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