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Kyrie of the recycling centre
At the risk of obsessively praying about waste and recycling, I have this prayer to offer, which I trust to be sensibly Trinitarian.(John Calvin was wrong. The Purgatory does exist. I have seen it with...
View ArticleReligious figures address the European Parliament
I mentioned in these pages that the “green” Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, addressed the European Parliament earlier this year. This was as part of a series...
View ArticleFather Bernie Gilgun’s homily, January 2, 2009
Homily from mass at the Mustard Seed, Worcester. Memorial of Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church.Download the mp3 or see other formats.
View ArticleOel ngati kameie: I see you (Na’vi in Avatar)
Finally got my acts together to see Avatar (3D) yesterday evening, two months after release. My Green friends Drs Richard Lawson, Derek Wall, and Rupert Read (and those over at Two Doctors blog in...
View ArticleRetreat on Christian nonviolence, Oct 29-31
Father Charlie McCarthy is giving a retreat on Christian nonviolence at Anna Maria College in Paxton next month. I’ve been on this retreat before, and recommend it.As a preview, you can listen to...
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Merry Christmas!
Enough of this pre-Christmas and post-Christmas blogging; today is Orthodox Christmas.Last night I stopped by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Nairobi a few hours before Christmas mass, which...
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Installing lectors and eucharistic ministers, St. Peter’s Parish
This past Sunday, I was “installed” as a lector at St. Peter’s Parish. The ceremony consisted of a simple blessing with holy water at mass.(Pictured: The newly-blessed lectors and eucharistic ministers...
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Holy Week church-hopping and other items
The day before Holy Week began, I attended a wedding at St. Columba’s United Reformed Church in Oxford, UK. St. Columba’s is down an alley near some of the Oxford colleges. It’s a normal sort of church...
View ArticleDiscussion Series: Catholic Social Teaching
7-9pm, five consecutive Wednesdays starting September 12, 2012. At SS. Francis & Therese Catholic Worker, 52 Mason St, Worcester, Massachusetts.This fall, the Worcester Catholic Worker community is...
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Mozarabic liturgy
Thanks to the travel expert Rick Steves, I knew about the Mozarabic Rite when I visited the Toledo Cathedral near Madrid in 2003. There, the Mozarabic liturgy has been kept in use. Sadly, I was not...
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Ash Wednesday
“The love of God breaks through that fatal withdrawal into ourselves which is indifference.” —Pope Francis Lent: A time of prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and projects. Project #1: What are you giving up...
View ArticleOrthodox feast of Leo the Great
Thursday was the feast day of Leo I the Great, Pontifex Maximus, according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar. So let’s remember how he dealt with Attila. Then the next day, this quote was reported: If...
View ArticleBishops start to think about maybe getting their act together
Perhaps inspired by The Onion’s “I Think We Should Start Talking About Starting A Band”, the Globe reports “Bishops call for change on Iraq policy”: The bishops, who have consistently expressed moral...
View ArticleEmmanuel Charles McCarthy podcast: Questions & Answers on Gospel Nonviolence
Here’s Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy’s “Questions & Answers on Gospel Nonviolence” in podcast form: podcast feed More info at the Center for Christian Nonviolence site. (I just made a podcast feed...
View ArticleDorothy Holds Forth
This interview, by Jeff Dietrich and Susan Pollack, was originally published in the December 1971 Catholic Agitator. You may want to compare this with the portrait drawn of her in Cardinal O’Connor’s...
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The Re-Dedication of St. John’s Church
The first thing you’d notice upon entering the church: There’s no holy water. The second thing: The tabernacle is wide open, empty. Last September, the ceiling of St. John’s Church fell in. Today,...
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