My Catholic Life

I like music. I am sure that if you have read some of my other blogs, you might have picked up on that. I’ve got the music in me. I heat up, I cool down, I’ve got words in my head so I say them. Music lifts me up, it often calms me, it inspires me. Many of my memories are underscored with certain songs. As you can tell by how I write, I can often find a spiritual meaning in even a rock and roll song. The trouble is that I don’t sing very well. Children cry and dogs howl, it isn’t pretty. I do sing when I am by myself…who doesn’t. I even got a speeding ticket once because I was so into singing the song on the radio that I forgot to watch my lead foot. I would love to be able to sing for people, especially praise music and I would see it as such a wonderful gift to be able to praise God in song in a beautiful voice. It would also be nice to be able to write songs. But this is not my gift. Many years ago I went to a concert of a popular contemporary Christian singer. The music was...

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. They say that actions speak louder than words. Seeing is believing and what you see is what you get. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Axioms of self evident truth. In today’s world that paradigm just may be shifting. We now have the ability to disseminate words at lightening speed, words that have the power to change the way we see the picture, to alter our perception of the action. In today’s world, in the words of Mark Twain, “a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Words can set up smoke screens to obscure and dull the edges of focus. Words can misdirect us away from the actions. Words can interpret the seeing and thus change the believing. Words become rhetoric and rhetoric is meant to influence and persuade. Sometimes that influence and persuasion, whether deliberately intended or not, can indeed hurt us. rhet·o·ric [réttərik] n 1. persuasive sp...

Now you know I am going to take the recent controversy concerning the TLM and frame it with some 60’s songs because that is just how I roll. There's something happening here. But what it is ain't exactly clear…I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look - what's going down? So, what’s going down? It seems that Rorate Caeli keeps breaking news trying to uncover some TLM-gate type of conspiracy. It also seems that they are getting their information from leaked private communications. A very reliable but anonymous source according to them. Move over Woodward and Bernstein there’s some new kids in town with a Deep Throat source of their own. Paranoia strikes deep…Into your life it will creep…It starts when you're always afraid… Step out of line, the men come and take you away In many traditionalist blogs there seems to be a decided point of view, perspective, dare I say out and out bias fostering a certain fear and mistrus...