Alright, so I stole the title from a Thomas Howard book that I read several years ago but it was too appropriate to pass up.

However, unlike the book, which goes into

details about what led one of the most renowned and respected Evangelical scholars/authors of our time into the Catholic Church, I will keep this focused on what, at least to me, is the principal concept in beginning to understand what being Catholic is all about.

You can blame a friend, who last week asked me to share some thoughts with our men’s group about what it meant to be Roman Catholic.

I’ll be honest, it’s still amazing to me that I would even be asked to discuss the subject, even if just with friends, considering that for most of my life (almost 30 years), I was nothing more than a cultural Catholic.

"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

-- Saint Augustine of Hippo, 4th-5th Century theologian, who is considered one of the greatest and most influential Christian writers in history.

After doing the sign of the cross several times before the gun went off to start the race, Ethiopian runner, Meseret Defar, holds up an image of the Virgin Mary carrying Baby Jesus that she carried inside her shirt, and immediately pulled out, kissed it and showed it to the cameras, after crossing the finish line in first place to win the 5000 meters gold medal on Friday.

It was in the middle of a hot summer night at a rebel camp in Sudan in 1991. Hundreds of children, who had been abducted from their families to be trained as soldiers, including one group that was taken during Sunday morning Mass three weeks before, and being kept in cramped, unventilated one-room huts, with no windows, were probably trying to rest. Or maybe, after weeks of being fed only a mixture of grain with sand, were so lethargic, that they were just barely staying alive.
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One recent Wednesday night, my wife had a meeting with her women’s group at our parish and I was left to fend for myself with the kids.
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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.
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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...
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  • The Protestant's Dilemma by Devin Rose
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  • 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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