When I attended a “spiritual gifts” workshop, my top two were writing and teaching. These stories are expressions of these gifts from the Holy Spirit. — In Catholic Medium Publications 5 Reasons to Pray the Rosary Published by Bryan Lawrence Gonsalves in Catholicism Coffee 5 Ways to Increase Devotion to Our Eucharistic Jesus Published by Bryan Lawrence Gonsalves in Catholicism Coffee My Life in the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites

3 Grumbles and gratitude — Not being superstitious, I never believed the saying “things always come in threes”. In the days between October 4th and 8th, three bad things happened to me. Oct 4th — After severe pain in my knee, I fainted twice and spent 10 hours in the emergency room. Oct 6th —…

Structure or straight-jacket“? — September 1st always felt more like a “new year” than January 1st. This is still true after more than four decades since being in school. The smell of stationery gives me the same “high” now as when I opened a new exercise book when I was six. Why do some…

Is it a sound strategy now that I have 500+ followers? — I’d never have considered this strategy in my first year. If I aspired to earn an income from writing, I might not do it. As of last week (August 11–18, 2023), I had 580 followers, 412 views and 42 reads. …

Dissatisfied Medium writers talk about Substack. I knew nothing about it so I did some research. Since I’m a “hobby” writer who’s not looking to earn an income, I never gave serious thought to building an email list. I rarely write more than one article per week. …

They’re pushing back and so can we! — Catholic media have of late reported on a number of cases where priests have been quite simply canceled, summarily removed from their pastoral assignments and charges, most often without the benefit of any prior consultation or due process. –Canceling Conservative Priests Neither I nor any of the many Catholics I…

Mimic with Medium — Thank goodness that we have alternative options besides FB, although I am fairly new to Medium and am trying to fine my way to do things that I can do on FB. I would welcome any useful advice on this. …

Which “F” Describes Your Chess Experience? — Sudoku wasn’t fun until I learned a few techniques that would get me through an easy puzzle. More challenging puzzles required me to apply several techniques then to circle back and apply them again, perhaps in a different order. Advanced puzzles involved another set of techniques. …

He came to transform it — and invites us to be co-redeemers with Him — Suffering without Jesus just hurts! Suffering with Jesus can change the world. — Fr. Mike Schmidt Scripture says that we are a “royal priesthood”. Priests of the Old Covenant offered sacrifices to God to atone for sin. …