There are few childhood heroes in life who never seem to disappoint in one way or another and, for me, that hero was Tom Seaver.   

Seaver, who passed away at the age of 75 after a battle with dementia and COVID-19, was without a doubt the greatest player ever to wear a Met uniform.  

In fact, he and another one of my favorites, Mike Piazza, are the only two Mets ever inducted into the MLB Hall Of Fame.

Having just arrived in New York from Cuba in 1969, the year of "The Miracle Mets," it would have only been natural for an impressionable 5-year-old to start rooting for the orange and blue.

"Christianity did not bring a message of social revolution like that of the ill-fated Spartacus, whose struggle led to so much bloodshed.  Jesus was not Spartacus, he was not engaged in a fight for political liberation like Barabbas or Bar-Kochba.

"So, if God knows everything, why do we have to confess to a priest?" my daughter asked in frustration after having gone to Confession for the first time face-to-face; that is, for the first time since her first Sacrament of Reconciliation in second grade and, that time, it was with a Polish priest with a heavy accent, who she couldn't understand!

I remember asking her what the priest had told her since he was apparently giving her valuable words of wisdom as she was sitting attentively in fron

But I was never told about the sorrow

How can you mend a broken heart?

How can you stop the rain from falling down?

How can you stop the sun from shining?

What makes the world go round?

How can you mend this broken man?

How can a loser ever win?

Please help me mend my broken heart

And let me live again

---Bee Gees, circa 1971...

"It's over," she said to me, outside a Boca Raton lounge, where I had driven to see her perform that night.  "I'm sorry but I can't do this anymore.

"You will never be happy if your happiness depends on getting solely what you want.  Change the focus.  Get a new center.  Will what God wills, and your joy no man shall take from you."

-- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a priest, author and one of the first televangelists in U.S. history.  He hosted a prime time television show in the 50's and 60's.

“Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”

-- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a priest, author and one of the first televangelists in U.S. history.  He hosted a prime time television show in the 50's and 60's.  His cause of canonization to be declared a saint of the Church was officially opened in 2001, and, in 2014, Pope Benedict XVI recognized him as "Venerable Servant to God," for a life of heroic virtue.

Life is about adjustments.

In the natural scheme of things, people adjust in one way or another from the time they are born until the day they die.

Unfortunately for me, I'm not much for change.

I've written about it in the past.  I'm a creature of habit.  I like the comforts of routine, consistency and familiarity.
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"When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything."  -- GK Chesterton

To me, it's surreal.

It seems like the world is going delirious over the coronavirus outbreak and, in all honesty, I just don't get it.

Maybe, it's just me.  I have a tendency of downplaying things (although my wife might differ).

"For God wished women to be smooth, and rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane; but has adorned man, like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him, as an attribute of manhood, with a shaggy chest - a sign of strength and rule."  -- Clement of Alexandria, circa late 2nd Century.

OK., it's gotten to the point, where I'm getting a lot of flak for the length of my beard.
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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...
  • 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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