Fr. Christian Mathis | July 12, 2011
Well, actually not my future wife, but my fellow blogger Preston’s. Preston wrote this beautiful letter recently over at See Preston Blog and I asked if he would allow me to repost it here. I am happy that he agreed. My hope is that he will find a wife who is even better than the [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | April 1, 2011
Often I am approached by members of our parish who have recently attended our weekend mass in Spanish who are confused by the small number of those who receive communion at this celebration of the liturgy. They are usually blown away by the high level of prayer and energy that they have experienced, but not [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 28, 2010
I’ve been receiving lots of attention recently in our diocese for my seemingly non-stop internet conversations with Catholics and non-Catholics alike on matters of faith. It is something that I have come to dearly love, and something that at times needs to be reigned in so that there is time for interaction with people in [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 21, 2010
I suppose that a few years of blogging makes it pretty obvious that I enjoy the world of social media. Blogging has led to Facebook, which led to podcasting and most recently the Twitter. I have to say that until I first began this blog, I was not what one would call a “true believer” [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 12, 2010
Last night I had the opportunity to gather with a small group of friends to celebrate ten years of priesthood. One gift that I received at our gathering was a poster of The Dude, with the simple message, Abide. I am a big fan of the the movie, The Big Lebowski, so the gift was [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | March 20, 2009
The ordination of Bishop Stika gave our diocese the opportunity to show forth the best qualities of the church in East Tennessee. Liturgies of 5,000 are not frequent in this part of the world, so I loved seeing this snapshot of our local church. It was a great blessing and honor to have been asked [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | January 1, 2009
Happy New Year! At our parish celebration of the eucharist this morning, my friend David made the comment that he was going to make only one resolution for the new year. He is going to strive to be holy. Quite a resolution that. I myself was planning on a few more smaller resolutions. But when [...]
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