Category: Random

Image by turtlemom4bacon via Flickr My wife, Vanessa, is great. Our household attempts to, for lack of better word, go to the basics. Granted, I say that in a blog on a custom-hosted website with a domain name from the Isle of Man, but I digress. One of the many things that she do to…

Image via Wikipedia Today, the Diocesan torch has been passed. Bishop Joe Vasquez sat in the Cathedra of Austin (temporary moved to St. William’s in Round Rock for today’s svent) and with that, is now my bishop. I watched the first segment of the Mass at home via the webcast, until the conclusion of the…

Image by wallyg via Flickr Editor’s Note: I wrote this post while in NYC a couple of weeks ago, but wasn’t able to post it and then, well, forgot about it. I’ve spent the last three days at the Bishop Molloy Passionist Retreat House in Jamiaca, NY (which is actually Queens, but as far as…

I’m taking a quick break from the other work I’m doing at the moment to comment on working. I’ve held three paying jobs in my life: Pizza Hut, UTeach Student Associate, and the University Catholic Center. Image via Wikipedia Pizza Hut’s working conditions are easy to assume. As a cook, my role was to make…

I read the so-called manifesto written by the gentleman, Joe Stack, who is assumed to be the pilot of the Austin plane crash into IRS offices. In short, what a troubled soul. Nothing, nothing can justify, on any level, such criminal and inhumane actions. Reading his nearly final words and to hear how he understood…

Image via Wikipedia Sometimes during an office of the Liturgy of the Hours or Mass, there’s a reading that, frankly, seems not in the least applicable to your life, but sometimes, St. Paul, the Holy Spirit–someone–is trying to get your attention. From this morning’s Morning Prayer, a reading from the letter of St. Paul to…