I highly recommend "The Song of Bernadette": a film about Our Lady of Lourdes (and so much more). youtu.be/TMeVkz2ALU8?si…

There's more to Our Lady of Lourdes than the water, the healings, and the miracles. There's Mary's: "I am the Immaculate Conception" confirmation of what was solemnly defined by Blessed Pius IX in 1854. You can read that definition here: papalencyclicals.net/Pius09/p9ineff…

Please, don't wait for someone else to make sure that a fire hydrant is accessible, and certainly do not wait until access to a fire hydrant is needed to help put out a fire. Do the right thing yourself and get it done. (#PrayTogether for firefighters.) newsday.com/long-island/fi…

"O God, who have willed that we be partakers in the one Bread and the one Chalice, grant us, we pray, so to live that, made one in Christ, we may joyfully bear fruit for the salvation of the world. Through Christ our Lord."

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the Master of the harvest to send out labourers for His harvest.” (Jesus) May it please the Harvest Master to bring Asher to Holy Orders.

For anyone out there - practicing, Sunday Massgoing Catholics in particular - who complain that Bishops in the United States U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops don't call out and challenge Catholics in Healthcare, Politics, Entertainment, ... Education who aren't doing the right thing to "Repent ...".

If you "want to know what love is" (thank you Foreigner ) on Saint #ValentinesDay (or any day for that matter), get "to know Christ Jesus" (thank you Frank Sheed)! youtube.com/watch?v=CPDal9…

Strive with words and actions to be the greatest man/woman, husband/wife, son/daughter, brother/sister, teacher/student, judge/lawyer by obeying and teaching the Commandments! "Whoever obeys and teaches these Commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven." (Jesus)

A Prayer for a President in Office

With help from Jonathan (and Francis Thompson), this #AshWednesday, repent: stop running from the Lord; make your return to Him, and know the Love of the "Hound of Heaven" Who lives to embrace you, and to be embraced by you. youtu.be/0wBlXEZipG8?si…

Do not be like the hypocrites who present themselves for ashes in church on #AshWednesday but wont present themselves for Jesus in church on Sunday; every Sunday. "Now is the acceptable time"!

Prayer, Fasting, Mercy: Weapons for #Lent and beyond! Saint Peter Chrysologus, pray for us.