Gratitude

If our parish church weren’t so obvious or close, I don’t know that we would have made the step towards it.

Refractions of Spirit

We find an abundant array of identities and voices in the long history of tradition. As a result, it presents great opportunities for personal exploration by allowing students (including ourselves) …

Quomodo Veni Huc

Well it ain’t exactly a Confessions or Seven Storey Mountain but it is an autobiographical reflection that, rather surprisingly, ends [spoiler alert] in a Catholic Church. Every time I try to figure out how I came …

A Twenty Decade Rosary

This writing was, in itself, an act of devotion. In this entry I offer a combination of traditional (Dominican and Popular), doctrinal, and scriptural materials to compose a “complete,” twenty …

Eulogy for my Grandfather

Delivered on 6 October 2012 There is not time, nor is this the place or occasion, to capture the whole life of Walter LB. All those stories we carry with …

On the Name

The name of this site, dfxc, is from the initials of my (intended) Christian name. Yes, I know I’m well ahead of the game here as I’ve still got far too …

Prayer to St. Ignatius of Loyola

O glorious Patriarch, Ignatius of Loyola, By your example, lead me to seek and find God in all things; Teach me to converse with God, that I might discern the …

The Apostleship of Prayer

Why isn’t every Catholic a member of this organization? Seriously, I’m not seeing the downside. Sure, some memberships or con-fraternities ask a lot. For the Apostleship of Prayer, though, the financial cost …

Prayer Adapted from a Homily of St. Basil the Great

Let Me Be Attentive to Myself Based on St. Basil’s Homily on Deut. 15:9 O gracious Lord, We human beings are easily led toward sins of the mind. Help us …

A Nonet of Heroic Couplets from a Disheartened Convert

I call thee, Lord: make haste and harden steel, To help the cause I frame in this appeal. For trampled do I find my soul, and tossed, Surrounded, threatened, faltering and lost. …