Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled (Lk 1:45).

For today, in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord (Lk 8:11).

May the hope, love and joy brought forth by the birth of baby Jesus, in the silence and stillness of the night in a manger, and held in the warmth and loving arms of His Blessed Mother, rest upon you and your family on this Holy and Glorious day.

Merry Christmas....

Last weekend, my five-year-old son went to his first baseball practice and, as any proud dad, who once had big league dreams, albeit short lived due to a lack of talent, I sat in the stands and watched intently as he went through warm-up drills, practiced fielding (if you want to call it that), base running and hit off a tee (and a lot of horse playing with the other four and five-year-olds in between).

Parents were heard crying out hysterically, "Why?... Why?"  Nobody seemed to have an answer.

Others were inconsolable and seen hugging their children or one another through wails and tears.

Even veteran law enforcers, who are used to seeing some of the most gruesome crime scenes ever imaginable, were distraught and some evidently overwhelmed.

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

-- Thomas Merton, world traveling intellectual and man-of-the-world turned Trappist Monk, mystic and social activist, who became one of the most influential Christian authors of the 20th Century.  He wrote over 70 books, including his best selling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain.

Without a doubt, one of the most beloved and well known saints of all time is fourth century Catholic Bishop, St. Nicholas of Myra, who is better known during the past two hundred years, as Santa Claus.

For our family, St.

When my wife's cousin's husband (try to follow me here) told me after our third child was born that now the fun was really going to begin for us, since we were no longer playing one-on-one but zone defense, I shrugged it off and laughed. 

Being a father of three kids himself, he meant it both as a joke and a warning.

You know you're getting old when your five-year-old son is hugging you and looking at you closely says, from the depths of his heart, "Dad, you have to shave your ears."...

“I love you, Daddy,” he said as he hugged my arm and buried his head on my chest, while I was kneeling during my eight-year-old daughter’s First Holy Communion Commitment Mass last week.

I can think of nothing more rewarding for a parent to hear than those words with sincerity from their child.

“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”

-- Archbishop Fulton Sheen, priest, author and one of the first and greatest televangelists in U.S. history.  Sheen hosted a prime time television show called, Life is Worth Living in the 1950's and The Fulton Sheen Program in the 1960's.

"Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done” (1 Chronicles 16:8).

When I think about Thanksgiving, I can't help but think of one of my favorite Norman Rockwell paintings.  It's the one that depicts a father and mother setting a Thanksgiving turkey on the table before, what appears to be, their children and extended family (or friends).
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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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Books I Have Recently Read...
Books I Have Recently Read...
  • Long Shot by Mike Piazza with Lonnie Wheeler
  • 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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