Fr. Christian Mathis | February 17, 2010
Lent is always a time when I encourage parishioners to slow things down in order to focus more on the basic practices that aid us in living the Christian life. One of the ways I plan to work towards slowing my own life down will be to spend less time blogging. It is something that [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | February 14, 2010
Sometimes I am at the mercy of humor. Though there are many Sabbath Sundays where I am content to share a post about sin or serial killers, today I feel compelled to share this video from Jennifer over at Conversion Diary. It just seems like the right thing to do.
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Fr. Christian Mathis | January 17, 2010
Since we have just begun the season of Ordinary Time, I thought it would be appropriate to repost this reflection from the beginning of last year’s season. You can check it out by clicking here.
Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | January 12, 2010
My friend Steve has been posting a series of what he refers to as Orthographs on his blog Pithless Thoughts. The most recent one really struck me and I asked him for permission to repost it here. He said yes. I feel it will really make a difference!
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Fr. Christian Mathis | January 10, 2010
Here we are again at a Sabbath Sunday and I am sharing a post from our trip to three NPH orphanages back in September entitled NPH Update.
Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an older post from your blog that [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | January 2, 2010
Today I am happy once again to be taking part in Elizabeth Esther’s Saturday Evening Blogpost. Elizabeth is hosting a special new year’s edition by asking bloggers to share their favorite post of the entire last year. My first thought was that it would be incredibly difficult to choose my favorite post from so many, [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | December 11, 2009
This edition of 7 Quick Takes will focus on seven saints. Let us begin with…..
…..Saint Nicholas. We recently celebrated his feast day on December 6. This saint may be more well known as Santa Claus but was first an important bishop in the the fourth century who attended the Council of Nicea and was known [...]
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