“Love is a sweet word but a sweeter deed.” -Saint Augustine

“There is no Christian perfection without sharing in the tender sympathy and patience which the Saviour of the world showed towards the weak, the un-gifted, the un-loved, and the unfortunate sinner.” -Thomas Merton

Sunday’s homily on wondering whether we really want Jesus to get that close to us. open.spotify.com/episode/2k4ZD3…

Although a Catholic may argue for any one candidate, to be clear, there is no Catholic argument for any one candidate.

"They say a nation gets the politicians it deserves." -Václav Havel

"Sentiment, unguided by reason, becomes sentimentality and sentimentality is a sign of moral failure." -Alasdair MacIntyre

All twenty minutes of this is greatness.

“And this is the most important thing about virtue: it has no need of wealth, or power, or glory, or any other such thing. If only the soul be holy, virtue seeks nothing beyond that.” -St. John Chrysostom

“It is not the mote from one’s neighbor’s eye that the house of God can be built, but with the beams one takes out of one’s own.” -Paul Claudel

I keep thinking every day how beautiful the Rosary is. It’s a beauty that becomes a miracle. It’ll change you if you let it.

Friday night dancing: R.E.M., the Bangles, Wilco, John Denver, perfection.

“Jesus, Mary, the Cross, I want no other friends but these.” -St. Bernadette Soubirous

Joyful Mysteries in the morning in a Cathedral in the Church in the city, and the unshakable sense that all shall be well, that all manner of things shall be well.

The Church is not mine. I am the Church’s.

That’s more like it.

A few thoughts for ⁦Our Sunday Visitor⁩ on Sunday’s readings: “Even though we have faith, we, nonetheless, sometimes reject the truth to which our faith points. Because we don’t want our God to be like that, non-violent and powerless and lain on a cross” oursundayvisitor.com/ways-faith-is-…

A homily for today, testing our belief: “Really, once you strip away all our sentimentality, all those nice, basically meaningless, things we say about Jesus, there are few who accept what he just said, few who follow.” fatherjoshuawhitfield.com/homily-where-w…

Come home from a morning of divine service, full of the peace of the Lord. But then I come home, sit down, get relaxed, and turn on the Cowboys game.

How’s the Cowboys game going? Well, Babe Laufenberg and Brad Sham are talking about the Jesuit/Highland Park game. They should have the great Tom Walsh call in!

"Our faith should remain like an unshakable and immovable oak, dearest brother." -St. Cyprian to St. Cornelius