Protestants have revivals. Catholics, being the more “I prefer experiencing the Spirit kneeling in silence under the stars, thanks” type, have retreats. And oh, do we like them. Ignatian exercises, high school senior retreats, engagement encounter, marriage encounter, Quo Vadis?, Cursillo, TEC, etc….Frankly, the creative Catholic with some cash could spend his [...]
I’m talking about Sanctification–making things holy. Or more accurately, turning things over to God, to be used for his purposes. Catholics do this all the time–usually with the help of a priest. We do it to metals, strings of beads, necklaces–things that for non-Catholics are jewelry, we have blessed, made holy, sanctified, and voila! They’re [...]
Not as in “The Knights who say NI!!!“, but the body part. Catholics like knees. More importantly, Catholics like being on their knees. It’s a sign of respect, humility, and in some rare cases, the opposite of humility, “God, I thank you that I am not like that politician…”.
Men have at times [...]
Since the publication of the Gutenberg Bible using movable type several hundred years ago, Catholics have always seemed on the back end of trends.
Can you name anything that Catholics can claim as their own since, say, the 1600’s? Let’s take a look at the list:
Bible covers. If you are Protestant you can find a cover [...]
Baptism is a ceremony where naked babies are dunked into small pool like fonts then paraded around the church by a priest or deacon so the assembly can see the babies’ naked body parts. This ceremony can be risky as sudden exposure to the cold church air, a plunge into the cold font water, [...]
Give Us A Hand– Catholics Love Relics!
“In Budapest, the procession of the faithful was led by the Holy Right Hand of St. Stephen” was the lead in an article on the basilica there. And no, the Holy Right Hand is not an organization calling itself that. The “Holy Right” is the mummified right hand [...]
Is is not only the Seraphim surrounding our Lord in the Beatific Vision that like saying the word holy as we learn in the Book of Isaiah. Catholics really like saying the word holy also. We talk about the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Family, the Holy Cross, Holy Redeemer, the Holy [...]
At the top of the list of stuff that Catholics like is holy water. Holy water is great stuff and unlike bottled water is absolutely free! Now I am not talking about the worst Bad Company album ever titled Holy Water, but water that has been blessed and can be found in any Catholic [...]
Catholics like babies. No, scratch that – Catholics love babies. It’s not that Catholics love babies more than other religious denominations, it’s that they like having as many babies as possible in accordance to the number that God is willing to bestow upon the family. Though the US average of babies per [...]
It’s all over the news tonight, Hillary Clinton was wearing one of those Brazilian Mary bracelets at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania. Everyone is all in uproar – Was it a campaign ploy? Does she actually have some real faith in Christianity? Did an operative of Mother Teresa put it on her wrist without her [...]
