The Seasick Catholic

Be a Father Who Plays

For the past two years, I have been working a job that has required a daily commute of roughly two hours, more or less. Over time, it has...

Paternity Disciplined

I recently listened to Matthew Kelly’s talk on the 7 Pillars of Catholicism; one of the pillars being the topic of fasting/discipline....

To Whom Shall We Go?

The Catholic Church has recently been dragged further down into the depths of the hellish sexual abuse scandal. As if the scandal of 2002...

Mercy Shines Forth

One of the most impactful and thought-provoking images that I have witnessed in my lifetime is Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal...

Joy in Poverty and Darkness

A couple of months ago, on the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, my parish hosted a visiting priest from Colombia. I do not...

An Insight into My Desolation

Over the past two years, I have been experiencing what is commonly referred to as “spiritual dryness.” My individual spirituality seems...

Choose the Person

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that the world is advancing technologically at a rapid rate. Technology is good, and...

God and the Blood Orange

As of late, I’ve been on a kick of eating blood oranges. A blood orange is, yes, an orange, but has tints of red, and even dark red,...

Disruption in Mass: Dad's Turn

I’ve likely mentioned somewhere in the past that there is nowhere else I’d rather be on this earth than in Mass at any given time. The...

Christ Like Availability

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live...

"WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT, AND WE'RE ALL SEASICK."