Finished reading: Unfolding the Mystery of Christ by Eliot Kapitan 📚
A helpful way to approach the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults.
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Finished reading: Counting the Cost by Clemens Sedmak 📚
This book is a terrific exploration of what it means to integrate values into the work of organizational budgeting.
10/10 - required reading for mission leaders, faith-based organization executives, and finance leaders everywhere.
Someone just unironically asked me:
Is the pope Catholic?
Happy 100th Birthday, Brother Alberic!
When asked about what drew him to monastic life he answered, “Nothing. It wasn’t attractive at all.” It just got into his head that it was something he ought to do, he said, and the idea wouldn’t go away.
I love this response so much! Vocations are mysterious.
Initial Thoughts on "Dignitas Infinita"
After a first read of Dignitas Infinita, I share a few of my initial thoughts here.
Finished reading: All the Kingdoms of the World by Kevin Vallier 📚
In this critique of anti-liberal ideologies - primarily Catholic integralism - Vallier presents arguments for (history, symmetry) and against (transition, justice).
I love the note on which he ends.
This is what it means to be a liberal: to pursue the ever-present possibility of peace.
Amen.
Catholicism is not an exercise in saying the same thing over and over and over again. There are changes, every time, in every person encountered, in every situation that demands charity, and being able to notice those changes in what feels like an endless sea of droning repetitive noise requires constant practice and eventual virtuosity. It requires listening. It requires treating music as something you play.
In his usual irreverent, yet spot-on style, Ginocchio uses improv comedy and the music of Philip Glass to make important points about practical theology.