Author Archives: djinnfromthebronx

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kq9rn-127e846 This week and weekend has been a busy one. Today’s episode was sparked by seeing a few clips of The Passion of The Christ, and how some things today, remind me of human cruelty, and sin that still we must fight.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7isxy-127e7ca Boy is there a lot to consume about this subject. My goal is that you dive in as well with your own study and search for the truth. Catholicism from the beginning has offered the way to Salvation and somehow it becomes real in reading the history especially the Fathers of the Church. IContinue reading “No Salvation Outside of the Church Two”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ac2em-12754b5 That’s Latin for No Salvation Outside the Church. The phrase was a bit scary for me as a child as both my parents seemed outside, and the details of how this seemingly unfair result were not then vouchsafed to me. I went outside for a while myself and then when I came back, IContinue reading “Extra Ecclesium Nulla Salus?”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r3vf4-126cf00 A small episode with a homeless man at my parish had me considering, “What would I do if the Eucharist were threatened?” Do I really believe that the bread and wine has been transformed into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ such that I would risk my very life to preserve it?Continue reading “The Acid Test of Belief and Courage”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pqwg4-1264734 Who’d have thunk that seeing a 40 plus year old movie would have me thinking about how bombarded we are by the idea of there being no real sin, and the obstacle to any of us to not falling onto the wayside as chaff? Well, so it was. I don’t know if you’re havingContinue reading “The Deep Seep of Sin and All that Jazz”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zn9s8-125c0f4 On June 16, Catholics participated in the opening of a three year Eucharistic Revival. The Eucharist is the Source and Summit of Catholic Life, the real Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity. Somehow, that Centrality has become obscured to Catholics and so we haven’t truly been theContinue reading “Revive Us O Lord”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hqnxx-12532d8 While having trouble with my streaing, I went back to an old DVD I love, about a woman who decides in mid-life to become a nun at a Benedictine Monastery. What a gem! Both the movie and the book it is based on. I want to share them both with you. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uujjj-124aa26 The second part of a discussion with attorney Lou Karlin who has a passion for the stateman and Saint, Thomas More, who, through my discussion with Lou, provides lessons for our time. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wf3xy-123dfff One day Lou, who is a fellow parishioner, said that he was going to a conference on one of my faves, St. Thomas More. I asked if he’d consider sitting down with me and talking more about More. He happily said yes, and we finally got to do so. Today’s podcast is part 1Continue reading “Lou Karlin Esq. sits down with Me to Talk about Saint Thomas More”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-767bn-1238a3f I can’t imagine that any of us are in a “good mood” after the murder of 19 children and 2 adults by an 18 year old man. Today’s podcast is my way of processing it.