I had a great conversation with Fr. Mitch last night on EWTN Live - it's always fun talking with him, and always goes way too fast! Now I'm sitting in the Birmingham airport waiting to board my first of two flights to get home.
I see we have some new folks here - thanks for checking out the Original Church community - the whole purpose of this is to give people a place to make comments and ask questions, because I don't have comments active on my YouTube videos, and because I'm not on social media. So this is the place to interact with me! EVERYONE should feel free to post here - observations, questions, even prayer requests. We're glad you're here. We are still a relatively small community, but we are growing!
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Blessings!
- Jim
P.S. All Christians are welcome here, but we do operate on the assumption that the Original Church was the Catholic Church, that the Catholic Church of today is the heart of the universal Church, and most faithfully expresses the intentions of Jesus when he said, "On this rock I will build my Church." So this is not a place for controversy, drama, politics, or even debate, per se, but we do want people to learn how to defend their faith when it's challenged out in the world.
Dear friends - Please take 10 minutes to watch this personal update from me:
I'm back, up and running, and ready to go - I should have a new JOURNEY episode within the next week or so - and because you are my loyal peeps, here is an exclusive, just-for-you, behind the scenes SNEAK PEEK into my new office:
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!
St. Albert the Great - teacher and mentor of St. Thomas Aquinas
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The problem with us men is that often we don't have the wisdom to be a father until we're a grandfather.
This may sounds like some ironic statement that makes you nod your head in agreement but shrug your shoulders in resignation, thinking, well there's nothing we can do about that. But the practical application of that is that it demonstrates how important it is for kids to grow up around their grandparents. But as in our culture the family becomes ever more fractured and spread out, that is harder and harder to do.
Lately I've been thinking that part of the problem is the whole concept of college. It used to be that everyone thought a person had to go to college to make a good living. Not only is that not the case (truck drivers make more money than I do) but now college has gone from useless to actually ruining our kids. But when I went to college, what you were supposed to do is figure out what career you wanted (as if anyone knows that at age 18) and then go away to the college ...
