We had a little celebration a while back for our dear friend Fr. Kevin, who after several years as a diocesan priest in Philadelphia has heard the call within a call: he’s joining the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal! Fr. Kevin’s gifts are many, and this little ditty is just a taste of his talent for making the ordinary extraordinary…. the much loved “Coffee Song”!! ….But remember, you heard it here first!
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The Coffee Song!
April 10, 2010Irish Soul – Liam Clancy and the Passing of an Age
December 7, 2009It’s with a sad and heavy heart that we see the passing of the Irish troubadour Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers, who died this past Friday at the age of 74. Liam, with his brothers and Tommy Makem, lifted Ireland’s heart high in the folk music revival of the last century, and brought much of Ireland’s soul to America. This music fed me for many’s the year, and many’s the meandering through green fields and woods. Their music hits the heart, and leads the mind into open spaces and forgotten things. The things that shaped a people, and continue to shape them. In our day of glitzy pop music, pyrotechnics, and shock and awe lyrics, the Clancy Brothers are a refreshing blast of salty air from the Irish Sea. Enjoy this classic tune “Red is the Rose” and a real gem; the Brothers being interviewed on a Scottish program, speaking on their art of folk music and the need for the genre now more than ever.
In Gratitude for the Gift of Down’s Syndrome
October 21, 2009The number of children born with Down’s Syndrome has decreased in recent years. Those families found with such a “defective” pregnancy are encouraged by some doctors to “ease their suffering” by aborting their babies. Rebecca and I were so advised when we learned of our daughter Grace’s condition of acrania. But in so doing, in attempting to eradicate “suffering” from our lives or the lives of our children, we destroy the very gifts God has in store for us. Yes, gifts.
Father, forgive us, for we know not what we do.
God always sees a greater good in the things we label bad. He sometimes allows nature to take it’s course, and we are invited to move through this wounded world with eyes wide open, and hearts ready for anything.
A Few Good Men
October 18, 2009The 13th Day
October 13, 2009“In a world torn apart by persecution, war and oppression, three children were chosen to offer a message of hope. Based on the memoirs of Sister Lucia Santos and independent eye-witness accounts, The 13th Day dramatizes the incredible true story of three shepherd children from the village of Fatima in Portugal who experienced six apparitions with a Lady from Heaven between May and October 1917, which culminated in the final prophesied miracle.
The lady, who later revealed herself to be the Blessed Virgin Mary, gave a secret to the children told in three parts, from a harrowing vision of hell, to prophetic warnings of future events including the advent and timing of the Second World War, the spread of communism, and the attempted assassination of the Pope.
Stylistically beautiful and technically innovative, writer-directors Ian and Dominic Higgins use state-of-the-art digital effects to create stunning images of the visions and the final miracle that have never before been fully realized on screen. This film was shot on location in Portugal and in England.”
– from the trailer
For more information on The 13th Day visit www.The13thDayMovie.com
Things You Don’t Say to Your Wife
October 9, 2009As ministers of a sacrament which is constituted by consent and perfected by conjugal union, man and woman are called to express that mysterious “language” of their bodies in all the truth which is proper to it. By means of gestures and reactions, by means of the whole dynamism, reciprocally conditioned, of tension and enjoyment – whose direct source is the body in its masculinity and its femininity, the body in its action and interaction – by means of all this… the person, “speaks.”
– Pope John Paul II, Theology of the Body address, 1984
The person speaks… but oh, sometimes we wish we hadn’t! Words are like arrows shot, once released they cannot return! So think before you fire away. What husbands and wives speak or communicate to each other, in word or in action, should always lead to communion. But sometimes… we slip. And it does just the opposite. Ladies, forgive us our trespasses, for often, we know not what we do! So men, here’s a goofy little reminder of the things you don’t say to your wives, courtesy of Tim Hawkins. Can the ladies come up with a list of things you shouldn’t say to us?
Rain Rain Rain
July 31, 2009Just close your eyes and listen to the first minute or so of this video and you’ll swear you’re in a summer thunderstorm. I love it.
Rebecca Sings
July 12, 2009Rebecca has such a gift for song – both in writing and in singing. I’m privileged to hear it every day, in the snippets and snatches of tunes she sings to our little boy. Now I finally caught her live at a coffee house we recently attended! The video was a little choppy, so I have tossed in a bunch of our pictures to set a nice “celtic mood” So…. here she sings! Enjoy!
The Two Towers – Boy Wonder Returns!
June 11, 2009Yes, clearly I DO have too much time on my hands…. I’m a teacher who’s off for the summer. What’d ya expect? Enjoy the second installment of the Tower of Binky… the Two Towers! (Coming soon, Return of the Binky!)
The Tower of Binky!
June 3, 2009Well, what can I say? Give me a half day of school and a free afternoon while Rebecca runs some errands… and you get this piece of cinematic delight! Me and the Boy gettin’ silly!
The Heart of Things 