NY Eve Eudemon
This year’s Times Square ball: __________ My most-recent at Catholic Exchange: Blessed Are the Flexible. __________ My apologies, but the holidays are keeping me from full-blown blogging. I’m back …
Month: December 2007
Something for Sunday Morning
“Never be downcast. For only one thing is fearful, and that is sin.” St. John Chrysostom
Stuff for Saturday Morning
The newest exercise “craze” (that’s a little strong, but so be it): open-water swimming. My wife will vouch for it. When we vacation up north, she loves to swim …
The Friday Eudemon
Now that researchers have concluded that divorce is bad for the environment, Theodore Dalrymple humorously asks: One of the interesting questions that this little piece of research poses is …
New Groeschel Book
My son Alex bought me a Benedict Groeschel book for Christmas: Spiritual Passages: The Psychology of Spiritual Development. I’ve only read the first twenty pages, but so far it …
Stephen and Christmas
When I was a kid, I was always depressed Christmas night and the day after, with my spirits gradually lightening as the new year approached. I don’t get depressed …
Something for Christmas Morning
“He is born poor, and he teaches us that happiness is not to be found in an abundance of earthly goods. He comes into the world without any ostentation, …
Christmas Eve
When I see stories like this, I think even the New York Times can be redeemed. A wonderful tribute to Benedict Groeschel, a man whose podcasts have become one …
Something for Sunday Morning
“Another manifestation of humility is the avoidance of negative judgments about other people. The knowledge of our own weaknesses will prevent us from entertaining a bad thought about anyone, …
Emailers
If anyone tried to email me and didn’t receive a response, please try again. Yahoo Mail put at least one apparently legitimate message in my spam/bulk folder. I had …
Saturday Stuff
Ah, Christmas weekend. A great thing, and the Tuesday Christmas is the best. I’ve informally polled my friends around town, and more than half of them aren’t working Monday …
Huckabee and the Bigot?
I can’t get this story off my mind: Mike Huckabee to speak at strongly anti-Catholic preacher’s church. I’m not fascinated that Huckabee is going there (though it concerns me—bigotry …