Even the Devils Believe

These next few days have several Augustinian memorials I thought I’d mention. It’s a nice lead-in to Advent for our community, remembering three of our sainted and blessed brothers right up to the end of the church year.
First, today was the memorial of St Gelasius, the third pope from Africa. He is well-known, [...]

I hope you all had a very blessed Thanksgiving. We spent some time with friends, and Sue went to the local VA hospital at lunch to serve food and chat with some of the veterans there. It was a pretty quiet, low-key holiday, but I always enjoy those.
I certainly have a [...]

I’ve followed a couple of Dominican blogs — Moniales OP and Contemplata aliis Tradere — off and on over the years, but I’ve never much paid attention to Dominican spirituality or practices. Lately, though, I’ve been drawing from the Dominican Antiphonary for some liturgical projects, so I’ve been reading up on the order a [...]

Bishop Christopher Epting of the Episcopal Church posted today about the martyrdom of an independent bishop in the Philippines just last year that I had not been aware of:
The last time I met with this group, we were in Manila and one of their council members was Bishop Alberto Ramento, a retired “presiding bishop” (or [...]

I’ve had a number of conversations over the past couple weeks with ex-Christians and struggling converts to Christianity who are hung up on one thing — humility. Though this is a critically important concept in our faith, for these folks it carries with it a whole host of associations — shame, depravity, feelings of worthlessness. [...]

I’m one of those folks who are bugged by too much Christmas stuff breaking in on Advent (not that I am all that loud about it, but I have blogged about it once or twice and mentioned it a few times in conversation before). But I was chastened by Talmida’s Lighten up, people!.
Lighting trees [...]

Today is the birthday of St Augustine, as well as the Feast of All Saints of the Augustinian Order. Today we remember those foremothers and forefathers who paved the way for us, developed our Augustinian spirituality over centuries, and served God through the charisms of the order and their own holiness — the famous [...]

This past week, we’ve been letting our cats out more and more with one of the cats we’re watching for a friend. Here are some photos of all four cats (our two, our friend’s two) checking each other out through the window:

Caesar and Mahler have been trying to get to know each other out [...]

My colleague and blog-friend Pastor Bob Cornwall has a great post up today ruminating on what it means to say that God is love:
A parishioner in my former church complained about my preaching so much on the Love of God or that God is love. That she was behind my ouster as pastor could be [...]

I can’t remember how I came across it anymore, but I found the site of the Order of Corpus Christi, a religious order in the United Church of Christ, rather fascinating. They describe themselves as “evangelical, reformed, catholic, and apostolic” on their website, and seem to be part of the Mercersburg Movement that Scott [...]