Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

Welcome back, Hornets! This week’s homily is a reflection on starting off on the right foot.

  Homilies referenced: A QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE: A QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE – Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent HIRELINGS (on Humanae Vitae, with extensive supplemental material): HIRELINGS – Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter

Nurses are the most trusted professionals in America. Their reputation is deserved, but nothing comes without a cost. Natalie offers some straight talk about the joys and challenges that nurses & medical professionals face in their professional and personal lives.

Pentecost Sunday 2018

Read Father James Dominic Brent’s essay on chastity and contraception (click title below to read): The link to the 1990 document by the Philippine Bishops containing the apology for lack of teaching on contraception and married life: here . Dr. Janet Smith and Mary Eberstadt present the data on which many of the statements in this homily are based. You can read them in full here: * “ C...

  “Quasimodo’s cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings, saints and bishops who at least did not laugh in his face and looked at him with only tranquillity and benevolence. The other statues, those of monsters and demons, had no hatred for him – he resembled them too closely for that. It was rather the rest of mankind that they jeered at. The saint...

Simply the best thing I’ve ever read on conscience can be found here :  http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/ratzcons.htm

The kickoff for our Rise Night for the Spring 2018 semester. Michael Duryea, director of liturgy at Sacred Heart in Emporia, KS, was kind enough to deliver our opening testimony.

A Lenten Kickoff.

Thanks to Our Sunday Visitor for making Dale Ahlquist’s visit possible! You can buy Dale’s (and Chesterton’s) recommended books here:  https://www.chesterton.org/product-category/books/

  I’d like to coin a new acronym: VIPYNHO (pronounced “VIP – in – how”). As in, Very Important Person You Never Heard Of.

Excerpts from “Who is a Christian?” by Hans Urs von Balthasar

The final Rise Night of the semester (and wrap up to our theme of “Love in the Ruins” presents some testimony around what it means to love our families well–and discover the sweetness hidden in them.

The prayer of Saint Anselm quoted at length in the homily can be found here . As promised in the homily, more information on the immigration issue: The USCCB released a document in 2003 on immigration entitled “ Strangers No Longer “. A thoughtful exchange from two different perspectives can be found here . Another thoughtful, more recent essay from the same publication.  

“Take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare; for it will come upon all who dwell upon the face of the whole earth. But watch at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of man.” Luke 21:...