Lawyer by day; Cathedral music coordinator by night; wife & Eucharist fan always. Catholic convert. Outdoor enthusiast. Home cook. Ukrainian-Canadian.
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My hymnal has the line in Amazing Grace as “that saved a wretch like me” instead of “that saved and strengthened me” and I am deeply confused??
Why did we change the most banger line??? Don’t tell me it was too HARSH are we Catholic or not smh
It’s actually deeply annoying to me how much better my brain works when I take my ADHD medication.
October novenas
For whoever this could interest, here’s a list of this month’s novena’s and the reasons to pray them for yourself and for others.
St. John Paul II: For healing, for courage, for the youth. Starts October 13th
All Saints Day: For intercession of all saints. Starts on October 23
Our lady of Aparecida: from October 3rd to October 10. Patron Saint of Brazil, very used to ask for help in moments of affliction
Blessed Carlos Acutis: For a greater love of the Eucharist, for the youth, for computer programmers. Starts October 3rd
St. Jude: Lost causes. Starts on October 19
Holy souls in purgatory: souls in purgatory
St. Therese of Avila: For those who suffer from headaches. Starts October 6th
St. Luke: for those preparing for surgery or recovering from surgery Starts October 9th
St. Hedwig: for the relief from debt and for help with financial difficulties Starts October 7th
All Souls’ Day: the faithful departed/ souls in purgatory. Starts on October 24
St. Anthony Mary Claret: physical healing, spiritual healing. Starts October 15
St. Gerard Majela : for a healthy pregnancy and for childbirth/ delivery Starts October 7
St. Charles Borromeo: for bishops, seminarians and catechists. Starts on October 26
St. Margarida Maria Alacoque: October 7th
Saint Ignacio of Antioquia: For conversion and for those being persecuted for their faith.
Saint Peter of Alcantara: starts on October 10th To strengthen our faith
Saint Antonio Galvão: for engineers, architects and construction workers. Starts From October 16th.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is a top tier sacrament and you should go
Ngl I kinda felt like after I was confirmed and became Catholic the grace of God would mean I would no longer have to fight my most significant sin(s) and I recognize that is not how that works but also… sure would be nice?
Choir has started planning for Christmas babyyyyy let’s start getting excited!!
Prayer request - just got a call that my dad got hit by a car while out on his bike. Very limited information at this stage, he’s at the ER and apparently coherent, but I am worried and there’s not much I can do right now except pray.
This religion is fun because everyone I know in real life is lovely and then I get on the internet and see some absolutely horrifying misogyny from people claiming it’s in the name of Catholicism
I feel like too often we are not sufficiently focused on actually solving problems, because we’re too wrapped up in (1) whether we are right or (2) whether we can enforce our view of morality (or (3) our power fantasies)
I have been cantor at one of the Sunday masses at our local Cathedral since shortly after my conversion, and today our priest pulled me aside and told me he wants me to be music coordinator for the Cathedral.
Please keep me in your prayers, that God might equip me to perform this ministry to His Glory. St. Cecilia, pray for us.
“Submitting to God’s will” should not be used to avoid proper consideration, communication, and discernment.
The vast majority of the time, you do not come to know the will of God for your life in a vacuum. It is not contrary to the will of God to make plans or consider what you think your ideal life might be, or even where you think God might be leading you.
Pray, think, and feel the hand of God in your life.
What answered prayer are you living right now?
Happy feast day of St. Monica, whose prayers helped save my brother.
I have a lot of emotions about St. Monica, please bear with me.
My brother is a drug addict. He’s been sober for two years now, and I am so, so proud of him and grateful to God. But for years before that, I spent every day waiting for the call that he was dead. If you haven’t had a loved one in the depths of addiction like that, I’m not sure there’s words to describe the pain, the sorrow, and the fear. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Through this, I assembled a small group of Saints to pray for my brother and my family.
I figured if St. Monica could pray until her son became a Saint and Doctor of the Church, maybe she could pray for my brother to survive. This is a woman who could understand our unimaginable pain, who wept with us every night over my brother the way she wept every night for her son.
My brother isn’t a Saint. He isn’t even Christian. But my brother is alive, he is sober, he is thriving. This is but by the grace of God, and I am so grateful for the prayers and company of St. Monica as we fought to bring him home.
St. Monica, pray for us.
