Daily Archives: November 11, 2023

I’ve now been to Mass and had my coffee.

The Communion verse is from Matthew 24:

“Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, he will set him over all his goods.”

All of us must be watchful.

And Bishop Strickland, I hope you remember that Corporation Sole means just you, Your Excellency.

Update:

I drove to Tyler this morning after Mass. I was already headed that way to bring my son to visit a friend who had moved out here. After dropping him off, I headed over to the Cathedral of the Diocese. I knelt before the Tabernacle which also put me pretty squarely in front of the bishop’s cathedra. I prayed there for Bishop Strickland that God would give him the courage to fight this evil.

Other than a photographer wrapping up from a quincianera, the place was dead. I thought to myself, “How odd that this is the center of the Catholic news cycle on this dreary November day…”