Ordinary Old Catholic Me
There are lots of Catholics like me out there. We are lifelong practitioners of a certain age, folks who remember Pre-Vatican Two and were thrown into the deep end of Post-Vatican Two where we still swim. We are well read, but we are not theologians. We need to stick together so that we can navigate the tides of modern life which are probably just as choppy as they were 2000 years ago. Ordinary Old Catholic Me is Ordinary Old Catholic You. Let‘s walk together!
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Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
A moment driving up on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles started my thinking about how difficult it is to stay on the narrow road and reminded me what I have to do to DO IT! Old news, usual difficulty in absorbing it.
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
How often do I miss the reality of what it means to FOLLOW Christ. As soon as the slightest suffering comes my way, I am down for the count. How about you? But He offers us a solution in prayer, in letting Him hold us to Himself. It's simple. We complicate it. I complicate it.
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Bad night last night spiritually speaking. Without Grace, I'd be doomed. Without Grace, accepted, responded to, we all would be doomed. Confession. Confession. That's the ticket!
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
A close friend, and devoted Catholic died this last month. Some thoughts on her, her Catholicism and on her death.
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Instead of turning to God I complained, very loudly, with little restraint. Good thing for Confession.
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
As part of the Eucharistic Revival, parishes are hosting the Eucharistic Miracles Exhibit that was created by the late teenager, Carlo Acutis, Blessed Carlo Acutis. He saw what so many of us, Catholics even, do not, that the Eucharist is the "highway to heaven".
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
A personal experience this past week I hope generalizes to your life.
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
When Bishop Barron talked about Catholicism as the privileged way, he got a lot of heat. However, looking at it from another perspective, it makes a lot of sense. We have nothing to do with our becoming Catholic, as infants, should that be our Grace. But having that Grace we have been given an advantage, a benefit, that requires a response--to share it, and to live a life that uses the tools of the Church leading us to Paradise. When a Catholic walks away, it is a failure to accept the gift.