I'm just thinking ahead here, tomorrow is the anniversary of the miracle of Fatima. There's a relatively new film about it, and it's pretty good - I recommend it. So maybe tomorrow night is a good night to watch it. (We're going to watch it here.) If you don't know about the whole Fatima thing, it's an important event that took place in Fatima, Portugal, right around the time of World War 1.
The film is presented as a flashback during an interview with the one surviving visionary (Sr. Lucia, who passed away in 2005), and it's interesting how the person interviewing her (played by Harvey Keitel) is a skeptic. I found the scenes in the "present day" less than satisfying, but the historical story is pretty well done, and it's amazing how many people witnessed the miracle - it was even in the newspapers of the day.
Here's the movie trailer:
Dear friends - Please take 10 minutes to watch this personal update from me:
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
This is Michael Knowles' commentary on the murder of Charlie Kirk, and directly on the press conference about the arrest - In the middle is a great speech by the governor of Utah - overall excellent stuff if you have 1.5 hr to spend on it
with some Florida colleagues - all of them Protestant, but with varying traditions on the Eucharist - it was encouraging to hear how there are some Protestant denominations that have a real respect for the Sacrament (and I'm not talking about Anglicans or even Lutherans):
