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10 REASONS WHY EVANGELICAL CONVERTS ROCK

7. Our touching naiveté: “Wait. You mean they didn’t just translate it from the Latin?”

4. The silly grin we get on our faces when the parish wet-bar is open for business.

Those were my favorite two but go get 'em all from the new Catholic JB Watson.

CHURCH SIGN SMACKDOWN
When church signs can't get along. Too, too funny, via Ex Nihilio, Nihil Fit.

LITURGICAL WATCHDOGGING

My real answer is longer than I have time for right now, because it would involve many things and conclude with me cyber-yelling, "I've BEEN a protestant, I don't want to be a protestant again!" Followed by, "You can go be a protestant, I have nowhere else to go!"

Here's me not writing that paragraph... I grew up in a Methodist church in a very small town in Virginia...

Brilliant explanation and defense by Karen Hall.

THE WORKING WEAK

It is feminists' fear of weakness that, with a sad irony, weakens them — by making them not only fear bonds of love and blood, but seek to convince others that such ties equal chains.

There's no shame in weakness, vulnerability, or incompleteness. No one in this life is ever complete. It's the awareness of our incompleteness that enables us to strive upwards.

Go read the whole thing at The Dawn Patrol.

YOUR CATHOLIC STORE BLOG
Great source of basic info, at least so far. The missal info was really helpful to me.