Love Letters to Lukewarm Souls

This lenten season, it's a perfect time to try using Catholic apps to help organize and strengthen our interior need and Catholic faith. We are living in the modern era of digital tech, after all. Here's my top Catholic apps I am using that I hope you might like, or even love. In no particular order... ESCRIVA LITE If you are a St. Josemaria Escriva and Opus Dei fan like I am, this free app is for you. The app contains daily mass readings in a clean, bold, super organized, minimalist interface, with St. Escriva related excerpts according to the readings of that day, taken from his various books and homilies, which are a gem of St. Escriva freebies of wisdom. Get yours here on Apple or Google Play app links provided below.   DOWNLOAD Escriva Lite HERE: https://apple.co/3ssgId1 DOWNLOAD Escriva Lite Here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appleia.com.escrivalite   GREAT CATHOLIC MUSIC Looking for all Catholic Songs, Hymns or Music? This non-stop, livest...

Written and posted last year on social media, February 24th, 2020. I was watching Voltron in Netflix with my son (and my wife too!) and was already on season 2. In its 2nd episode entitled "the Depths", there's a clip that shows a dialogue between Voltron's Blue Lion pilot and the jellyfish mer-people. The latter abducted the pilot in order to ask for his help to stop their alleged evil Mermaid Queen, because she was believed to be responsible for controlling and brainwashing their mer-men and merwomen's minds.  When the Voltron pilot asked them why weren't they brainwashed by the Queen like the others were, the jellyfish people told the hero that they are jellyfishes, they don't have brains, so you can't brainwash something you don't have. When I heard it, I said, well, that's a quotable quote if you come to think of it. I can't help but thought of some people I knew in social media (i.e., the Atheists/Agnostics) that say Chris...

In light of the recent sex scandal that surfaced around the late Ravi Zacharias,  one of the finest and respected modern Christian apologists of our times in the Protestant world,  I RAISE THIS ISSUE NOT BECAUSE to goad readers or shame Protestant pastors/leaders as bad people, as some do against Catholic clergies if it's the other way around. But this is simply my hope and invitation to Anti-Catholics (who, every now and then, frequently demonized the Catholic church for sex scandals, cover-ups, etc.) of how we are to logically ponder everything into perspective whenever these Christian sex scandals (Protestant or Catholic) arise in the news. What then do we as Christians make of this monstrosity? My own two cents is: 1. No matter what institution or organization we are in, as long as it is managed, governed, or run by Human Beings, sinfulness and bad apples always abound until the end of time. This is the reality of us men and women in a fallen world. This i...