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Ad Orientem by Mark C. N. Sullivan, a writer for the news bureau of a Catholic college in Massachusetts and a freelance journalist. Don’t just look at the pictures!
Ad Orientem is now at the top of our fully alphabetized blog links.

I am not sure what this guy’s real name is, but he’s conservative, Catholic and likes Opera. He can’t be all bad. He’s got a unique contest going on – very different from Emily Stimpson’s yesterday. We are still awaiting the results of that, Emily!

by St Alphonsus Liguori

We did this setting of the Way of the Cross in Emittsburg yesterday. This part, which is repeated at nearly every station, is very powerful:

I love you, my Jesus, and I repent of ever having offended you. Never permit me to offend you again. Grant that I may love you always; and then do with me what you will.

I don’t think any of them would work, but they are funny nonetheless. Patrick Madrid’s Top Ten Orthodox Catholic Pickup Lines.

Emily Stimpson is compiling a list over at her place. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with.

You know what single, orthodox Catholic men are asking? “What do single, orthodox Catholic women want?”

I accompanied about twenty people from my parish to the Basilica of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary yesterday. We toured the grounds of the shrine and though the Basilica is closed on Mondays a very kind sister let us in and prayed with us. It is truly one of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen. There is a side chapel that depicts the Agony in the Garden. The room is semi-circular with a mosaic on the wall of garden, complete with the three Apostles taking their rest. There is a statue of Christ in the middle of chapel. He is taking a cup that is being passed to him by an angel. A more moving sculpture of that event I have not seen. I wish I had brought my camera! I’ll have to go up there again soon and take some pictures. We prayed the Stations of the Cross in the cemetary, then toured the Basilica, had Mass in the chapel at Mount St. Mary’s, ate lunch, went to the grotto on the hill and prayed the rosary, then piled back on the bus and went home. Here is the website for the shrine – I wish they had more pictures on the site.