Not long ago, I overheard a co-worker of mine, who is a mother of two, give some advice to another co-worker, who is single, about waiting to have kids until later in life.

The mom told the single co-worker, “Girl, you wait and have as much fun as you can, before having children. Travel, see the world, enjoy your marriage and don’t have kids until your mid or late 30’s.”

Thursday night, while driving home from Duffy’s Tavern in West Miami, where my men’s church group gathers after our bi-monthly meetings (we talk a little about God, we bond, we break bread together and well, we enjoy a few spirits), I was listening to a guest host on a nationally-syndicated radio program, The Mark Levin Show. The host was talking to a caller, who was discussing the U.S.

A couple of years ago, I was invited by the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) instructor of my parish to make a presentation for the catechumens and their sponsors on the Lord’s Prayer (also known as the Our Father). This is no simple task since it takes the Catechism of the Catholic Church about 25 pages to explain (see here, here, here and here).

St. Thomas Aquinas once wrote, "The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers...
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Having the time to read a complete book is not always easy in the agitated life most people live today.

Although finding the time is hard enough for me with a fulltime career and as a husband and a father of three young kids, it is even harder for my wife, Yanik, who aside from a fulltime job as a Press Secretary for a U.S.

Friday night, while having dinner with my wife, Yanik, I mentioned that I couldn't wait for the kids to go back to school so that we can return to normalcy. She started laughing (not exactly the words of agreement I expected)...

“What do you mean normalcy?” she asked dismissively. “What have you been doing all summer?”

What I meant is that now that the girls will be back at school, she (my wife) will start taking them every morning.

Last week, while promoting her upcoming movie, “Switch,” Jennifer Aniston made some questionable remarks on the necessity of fathers in today's changing world.  She stated that, unlike previous generations, women now don't have to "fidle" or "settle with a man to have a child."

The comments gained national attention when Fox’s Bill O’Reilly blasted the Hollywood actress on his show.

And, earlier this week, Aniston had to clarify her comments.

Very funny video...

A Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Zoltan Lendvai, has become a YouTube sensation.

Check out his moves, as he entertains local kids.

I’m a huge NY Mets fan. I can tell you about their active players, their 40-man-roster, their injured reserve list, their top minor league prospects, their history and many other tidbits that most people don't care about. I have been following the team through thick and thin since getting interested in baseball in 1971. For decades, I have studied them METiculously. It was and, to a great extent, continues to be a passion for me.

As some of you may have read, Anne Rice the best selling author of the Lestat Vampire series, recently announced on her Facebook page that she is leaving Christianity (see story here) because, among other things, she disagrees with Christianity's view on homosexual marriages, as well as the Catholic Church's teachings on artificial birth control and priest sex scandal.

Photo of new Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and me taken this morning during a visit to the Noticias 23 News Room...

One of the ongoing struggles I face as a Christian is practicing temperance.

The Bible says our bodies are God’s Temple and should be treated as such physically, mentally and spiritually. We should maintain them to maximum capability so as to allow God to work within us.

Unfortunately, my struggle with temperance begins with my, possibly, abnormal passion for food. I am a passionate person in most everything I do and food is no exception. I love food and am not very particular to what type.
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This blog is basically what the title suggests, my attempts at living the Catholic faith to the best of my abilities.
I write about my struggles as a husband, father, son, brother and Christian man.
From a faith standpoint, I also write about my observations, interests, videos, and things that catch my attention, as well as, celebrities that are trying to live their religious beliefs in the public eye.
I refer to it as life on a high wire because those of us who are trying to live our faith in today's culture are are walking a fine line over a precipice between two worlds; what our faith teaches and we know in our hearts and what the society accepts and expects us to accept.
God, religion and Christianity, especially Catholicism, have been under constant attack and this is my small way of fighting back.
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I'm not an expert or pretend to be. I'm just a lay Catholic who is living and learning, as I go, like many others.
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Born in Oriente, Cuba, raised in Hialeah, Fl and graduated from The U. I’m a husband, father, son and older brother. I was a lapsed Catholic for most of my life until attending a men’s spiritual retreat in April 2006, which totally changed my perspective on life. That weekend, the emptiness I had always tried to fill with the things our culture promises will make us happy (wealth, pleasure, power and honor; St. Thomas Aquinas’ 4 substitutes for God), was filled with the love of God. I have been passionately studying my faith and, hopefully, drawing closer to God ever since. Now, I see my purpose in life is to become a saint and to lead my wife and kids to heaven. It’s not easy! I am no expert by any means. I'm just learning and trying to live my faith to the best of my abilities.
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  • The Protestant's Dilemma by Devin Rose
  • Jacob's Ladder; 10 Steps to Truth by Peter Kreeft
  • Absolute Relativism: The New Dictatorship and What to do About it by Chris Stefanick
  • Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love by Bret Baier
  • The Church and New Media by Brandon Vogt
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
  • Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor by Allen Hunt
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Be A Man! Becoming The Man God Created You to Be by Fr. Larry Richards
  • Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life by Charles J. Chaput
  • Raising Good Kids Back to Family Basics by Ray Guarendi
  • The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming by Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • How Firm a Foundation by Marcus Grodi
  • First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity by Scott Hahn
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