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‘Get Clean’ confession video
In cleaning out older email, I ran across this video from last week’s xt3 update. It’s the winning entry from a New York contest encouraging youth to avail themselves to the sacrament of confession. Definitely a video that hits home if you ask me or a Catholic of any age, I hope. Inspired to find [...]
World Refugee Day
Today is World Refugee Day, a time to remember those who have died while seeking refugee from their homeland, according to xt3.com. It’s also a time to realize how to help the hundreds of thousands who are currently seeking asylum. Some resources: The Church on World Refugee Day (a Q-and-A on Vatican Radio) Praying with [...]
A papal call to space
Pope Benedict XVI made the first Papal call to space on Saturday, according to xt3.com, a social networking and resource site for Catholics. The nearly three-and-a-half-minute call included a Q&A with the 12 astronauts at the International Space Station. Topics included their mission, personal lives and the mystery of science and space in general. Follow [...]
Digital Story of the Nativity
Sure we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany at Mass this weekend, but I still have the Christmas season on my mind . . . and the Nativity set out at home. Today’s transition from “Christmas vacation mode” to “work mode” made the viral video, “Digital Story of the Nativity,” all the more entertaining to [...]
Happy birthday xt3
Not only is today St. Anthony of Padua’s birthday, but it is the first birthday of xt3.com, the Catholic social networking site launched to help World Youth Day 2008 pilgrims stay in touch and for Catholics worldwide to continue to grow in their faith. I’ve pointed out a few highlights of the last year of [...]