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This is a very human thing to do and it is not a idolatry. US Olympic Ice Skater Maxim Naumov lost his parents in that airplane and helicopter crash that happened famously last year. After a wonderful skate performance he held up a picture of his parents and kissed it. If you are a consistent iconoclast , you need to be decrying his idolatry. But if you're reasonable, you realize he is simply hono...

📜✨ NEW SONG: “Before the Ink Was Dry” — The Church didn’t come from the Bible. The Bible came from the Church. Jesus didn’t spend His ministry telling people to sit down and start writing. He didn’t say, “Write this in remembrance of me.” He said, “Do this.” He baptized. He broke bread. He forgave sins. He gave authority. And He built a Church that could teach, bind and loose, forgive sins, appo...

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📜✨ NEW SONG: "RESTLESS HEARTS" — You can’t fill an infinite hole with finite stuff. St. Augustine nailed it: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” Jean-Paul Sartre saw the same ache and called it “nausea” — because we’re finite… yet we desire the infinite. C. S. Lewis flipped the whole thing into a lighthouse: If I find in myself a desire nothing in this world can satisfy, maybe I’m...

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📜 NEW SONG: Hard Sayings, Ancient Soil Some parts of the Old Testament are hard to read. Not because they’re unclear — but because they’re heavy. This song doesn’t deny that weight, and it doesn’t explain it away. It tries to read these passages the way Scripture itself asks to be read: in their ancient context, across time, and with the whole story in view. That includes difficult themes like ju...

Happy Feast of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr — protector of throats and witness to Christ. 🕯️🕯️ Fittingly, his feast follows Candlemas, when light is blessed… and today, throats are too. Through the intercession of St. Blaise, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness. Yes, the blessing involves crossed candles. Yes, it looks a little intense. And yes — grac...

📜🕯️ NEW SONG: “CANDLEMAS” — the day the Light walked into His own Temple. So... here's a song I didn't know that I needed in my life...but I LOVE IT... Presentation of the Lord (a.k.a. Candlemas) is the Church celebrating Jesus being brought to the Temple forty days after His birth—Mary and Joseph obeying the Law, the poor man’s offering (two doves), and Simeon finally getting to say: “My eyes ha...

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📜✨ NEW SONG: “PRE-DENOMINATIONAL” — when “non-denominational” becomes Denomination #10,001. If you’ve noticed people fleeing the mainline denominations, it’s usually for a reason: confusion, compromise, and a constant identity crisis. I get it. But “non-denominational” isn’t always the cure… sometimes it’s just the next splinter with a cooler sign: “Vibe Life Church — Free Coffee.” This track is...

MADE FOR COMMUNION The Trinity isn’t a doctrine Christians invented centuries later. It’s already there in Genesis. “In the beginning—God.” The Spirit hovering over the waters. God speaking light into existence. From the very first lines of Scripture, God reveals Himself not as solitary, but as communion. And when humanity is made in His image, that image isn’t finished at the individual level: “M...

📘🎶 NEW SONG DROP “Let’s Learn the Islamic Dilemma” – Peter’s Barque This song exists for one reason: clarity. The Islamic Dilemma is one of the rare arguments in religion that doesn’t require you to believe the Bible, accept Christianity, or even believe in God at all. It works entirely on Islam’s own claims about revelation, Scripture, and logic. In short: Islam affirms the earlier Scriptures c...

🗝️ THE KEY STILL TURNS — New Release From the beginning, Peter had primacy. And the Church knew it. Before emperors. Before medieval debates. Before East and West were torn apart. Scripture shows it. The ante-Nicene Fathers name it. The councils rely on it. Ignatius calls Rome the Church that presides. Irenaeus says all churches must agree with her. Chalcedon stands and declares: “Peter has spoken...

ONE HOLY FAMILY, UNDIVIDED 🎶 BONUS THURSDAY DROP 🎶 Same song. New visuals. This is a re-release of One Holy Family, Undivided—not because the song changed, but because the visuals did. Some people didn’t care for the original art, and over time I’ve found a visual style that fits the theology and tone of these songs much better. This is the artistic direction more of my releases will follow movi...

📜✨ NEW SONG: “NON-VAIN REPETITION” Jesus warned against vain repetition — not prayer that repeats. That distinction matters… a lot. Some people hear Christ’s words in Matthew 6 and assume God dislikes repeated prayers, written prayers, or Christians praying together in unison. But Scripture itself flatly contradicts that reading. The Psalms are repetitive by design. Psalm 136 repeats the same li...

📜✨ NEW SONG: “PUBLIC, ANCIENT, APOSTOLIC (Heresy Roll Call)” — Why Christianity survived a thousand confident mistakes 📝 Main Body Everyone thinks their interpretation is the obvious one. The early Church heard all of them. From the first centuries onward, Christians faced a constant parade of alternative gospels — some denying Christ’s humanity, others His divinity, others grace, others the Ch...

POISON THAT WEAKENS / POISON THAT KILLS ☠️🧪 (on venial sin vs mortal sin) Ever hear: “Sin is sin”? Sure… in the same way that “injury is injury.” Scripture is blunt: “There is sin that leads to death… and there is sin that does not.” (1 John 5:16–17) So no—not all sin is the same. Venial sin is real. It wounds love. It fogs the conscience. It’s the slow leak. Mortal sin is real. It breaks communi...

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📜✨ NEW SONG: HONOR IS NOT WORSHIP, KAREN” — Honor isn’t a PIE… it’s a FLAME. Some folks treat honor like a zero-sum pie: If you give *any* honor to Mary or the saints, you must be taking a slice away from Jesus. But Catholics don’t think of glory like pie. We think of it more like a flame. Lighting another candle doesn’t “steal” fire from the first—it fills the room with more light. And that’s t...

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📜✨ NEW SONG — HOLD FAST People love to say Paul taught “faith alone.” The problem is… Paul never actually says that. “Hold Fast” is written in the voice of Paul — a reminder that his letters weren’t addressed to unbelievers, but to baptized believers, already given grace, warned not to lose what they had received. Paul talks about perseverance. Discipline. Obedience flowing from faith. And yes —...

So… it’s been one heck of a month + change. 😅 Tomorrow (Sat, Jan 10) is my last day of *daily* Peter’s Barque posts... But don’t worry — Peter’s Barque isn’t stopping! It’s just graduating from “unhinged daily sprint” to “sustainable long-haul.” 😄 Starting Monday (Jan 12, 2026), I’m switching to a MWF cadence: New song every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:00 AM CST. Why? Because I’m trying t...

Jesus wasn't playing around with that bread talk 🤯 He was SERIOUS about his flesh being true food, and when folks dipped, he let 'em go! 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️ Talk about a mic drop moment. Bet you didn't see THAT coming. #Jesus #BreadOfLife #DeepTalks #TruthBomb #MindBlown Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise