Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
A Mormon Converts to the Catholic Faith: My Journey A Mormon Converts to the Catholic Faith: My Journey"Our task instead is to constantly set ourselves on fire with Christ. We can't wait for someone else to do it for us. We have to do it ourselves, through prayer, through the sacraments, through insanely hard, incessant work of honing our craft, even if the work is often looking out the window and reflecting, or doing the dishes, or making the bed. Through abandoning ourselves; by being metaphorically scourged, crowned with thorns and nailed to a cross."It's really just all about love...
"Why are undergraduates at Britain's oldest and most respected universities more likely to undergo conversion to fundamentalist forms of Christianity than other students?"
"Evangelization of the American Catholics in their own faith is probably the most difficult task of all. They don't know what they don't know."I'm not American, and so much on the 'net is about America, but the same problems exist in Canada. I like Fr. Dwight. He's fairly Traditional, but one thing that I like about some Traditionalists is that they recognize, and comment on, the fact that our God is a mighty God who works in mighty ways, so he accepts a supernatural aspect of God. Miracles happen. Things that can't be explained are done. I like that thinking...
is filled with the same divisions as it has always had."Anglicans defecting to Rome are being told they must leave their churches with clergy even been asked to move away from their parish. "I'm sure they know that decisions of conscience are not always filled with joy at every level...
