Oscar Gilroy

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her…” Ephesians 5:25.

This kind of love and heroism is humbling and breathtaking. Please keep this young widow and her husband in your prayers.

‘He’s my hero’: Wife talks about moment husband gave his life to save her during tornado.

I’m starting to see a number of those billboards that proclaim the world’s apparent expiration date of May 21st… 2011! Nine days from now! In Matthew 24:36, the Bible suggests that this will be one of the more expensive ventures in embarrassing advertising. Nevertheless, I am grateful to the group that is putting these up for their (intentionally?) ironic sense of placement, at least on the one on my route home from Church. To come back home from my new parish here in Savannah, I get onto a busy road, immediately pass a Mormon church, a few residential blocks… and then run into a gentlemen’s/feckless womanizer’s club and a number of signs for adult/overgrown adolescent entertainment stores in the area, amongst other run down establishments. After driving a few hundred feet with strippers and porn stores at the front of my mind, I see something like this:

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Beautiful video from the talented folks at Igniter Media. The Gospel according to Twitter:

“It is unusual to celebrate a death, but today Americans and decent people the world over cheer the news that madman, murderer and terrorist Osama Bin Laden is dead … Welcome to hell, bin Laden.” – Former Arkansas Governor and ex-Baptist Minister Mike Huckabee.

This sort of comment speaks to a lot of the reaction at Sunday’s incredible news in the war on terror. We need to ask if open glee and reveling in the face of another man’s death, and wishing hell upon him is ever acceptable as a Christian. It is not, and for any Christian to do so, and worse, to excuse it or rationalize it somehow is an embarrassment at best and a scandal against the faith at worst. Continue Reading »

This wonderful piece gave me a lot of hope about the future of the Church in America; it reminded me of the kind of faith and zeal that I saw in a lot of awesome guys towards the end of college, some of whom are now among the men the author writes about at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary. These great men made a deep impression on me while we went to school together, and I hope readers will keep them and all who are called to a religious vocation in their prayers.

My brother is a Roman Catholic seminarian, and I visited him at Mount Saint Marys Seminary the last couple days to see him installed in his second-to-last office (acolyte) before hopefully being ordained a priest (in about two years). I’ve been hoping to visit John for a long time, and finally got the opportunity.

My Evangelical brothers and sisters typically misunderstand and mischaracterize the Catholic Church, its leaders and theology and practices, so I felt compelled to write this to them, an “open letter” if you will.

via A Visit to Heaven.