In the well known 1980’s Miller Lite commercial (maybe I’m dating myself), Bob Uecker was informed by a stadium usher that he was sitting in the wrong seats and Uecker tells the viewers, “I must be in the front row.”

Well, Saturday afternoon, I felt like Uecker when I took my 7-year-old daughter to our first game at the new Marlins Stadium in Little Havana (although, instead of being escorted to the nose bleed section, where I usually sit, like Uecker in the commercial, I was actually sitting in the front row!)

In fact, as the row numbers started waning down, as we walked down the steps in the section that we were in, I realized we were beyond the numbers; we were in the letters section below.

This photo montage and accompanying musical score powerfully capture the many faces, beauty, diversity, reverence and grandeur of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, as seen through the work of its shepherds and the eyes of the faithful, from priests offering Mass on the battlefields of Afghanistan, to seminarians, to the pinnacle of our faith; the Holy Eucharist…
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Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.

Anyone who knows me would say that I'm not one to complain about sports on TV.

However, I would like to know whose hair brain idea was it to schedule my favorite baseball team (NY Mets) and the first game of the Miami Heat’s second-round playoffs against Indiana on Mother’s Day?

My wife always tells me that I lack self-control. I have no discipline.
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“What is it with you and dates?” a friend once asked me during a men’s parish meeting, after I had rattled off a series of dates in Catholic Church history. Many of my friends started laughing.

I hadn’t even realized I had done it until he called my attention to it.

I can’t help it. One of the many aspects that fascinate me about the Church is its historicity and direct link to Jesus Christ.

In fact, today is a great example. The Church celebrates the Feast of St.

While picking up the dishes after dinner one recent night (yes, underneath this tough man’s man exterior is a soft and gentle interior that is afraid of my wife!), my eleven-year-old daughter and wife got into a conversation at the dinner table about her friends and boys in her fifth grade class.
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“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”

Last June, I blogged about an upcoming movie, at the time titled Cristiada, starring Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria, based on one of the ugliest and most violent periods in modern Church history; the Mexican Cristero War.

It is a little known three year civil rebellion (at least in America) that began as a blatant assault on the Roman Catholic Church by the Mexican government in the late 1920’s (1926-1929).
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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.
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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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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...
  • 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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