Being Is Good
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Lunch at Micanopy

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Some of you, at least those who know us well, realize that Diane took a fall about two weeks ago. While trying to break her fall she put her...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr

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Today we celebrate the memorial of St. Irenaeus, bishop and martyr. Irenaeus was a remarkable saint, born c. 130, who died a martyr about th...

Pro-Abortion Sadness

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A few moments ago, I happened across a photo on Twitter. It shows a family protesting the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v....
Monday, June 27, 2022

D is for Democrat…and Death

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I haven't posted anything about the recent Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade -- not because of a lack of interest...f...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Saving the Republic

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The left loves to confiscate. It stems from its basic belief that individuals do not and should not own anything. In their view, only the st...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Aging...Not So Gracefully

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In September 1980, Pope John Paul II opened an International Forum on Active Aging with an address to the participants. It was brief address...

Homily: Saturday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time

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Readings: 2 Chr 24:17-25; Ps 89; Mt 6:24-34 Over the years, as I’ve re-read and meditated on these words of Jesus, I’ve come to the conclu...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Pride?

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Okay, let me begin by saying I find  so-called Pride Month abhorrent. If I recall correctly, it used to be Gay Pride Day, and was celebrated...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Postscript: Ilya Shapiro and Georgetown

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Another postscript: June 9. Read the interview of Ilya Shapiro on Townhall.com https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/06/07/i-final...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

St. Augustine Prayer for the Sick

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Every so often I come across something that just strikes me as perfect. The other day a friend sent me the following prayer, apparently comp...

Our Times

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We certainly live in strange times. So many today seem to have lost the ability to engage in logical, rational thought based on real truth. ...

Homily: Saturday, 7th Week of Easter

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Readings: Acts 28:16-20,30-31; Ps 11; Jn 21:20-25 My! Today's readings sure give us a lot on which to reflect, to pray, and to preach;...
Monday, May 30, 2022

In Memory...Always

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Memory is one of God's great gifts because it keeps alive the people and events of the past so we can, in a certain sense, relive and re...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Homily: 25th Anniversary

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Note: It seems hard to believe that my ordination to the permanent diaconate was 25 years ago today. I and 20 other men were ordained by Sea...
Friday, May 20, 2022

It's All About Abortion!

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"I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly" [Jn 10:10] ________________________ For years, really for decade...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

What's Happened?

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For Dear Diane and me April and May have been strange months.  The first thing that happened was a car accident. I was sitting at a red ligh...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Thank God for WHAT?

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Let me begin simply by repeating the chant of a large collection of pro-abortion screamers who were trying to disrupt worshippers at a Catho...
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Deacon Dana
The Villages, Florida, United States
I'm a permanent deacon of the Roman Catholic Church, incardinated in the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, but now living and ministering in the Diocese of Orlando, Florida. I'm also a retired naval aviator, educator, and business consultant. Born in Bridgeport, CT, I was brought up in Larchmont, NY, and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, NY, graduating in 1962. I spent a year at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, but then managed to get an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, from which I graduated in 1967. The Navy taught me to fly and sent me to graduate school. Afterwards I taught computer science at Annapolis for several years. I did lots of other strange things in the years that followed. Politically -- perhaps more accurately, philosophically -- I'm a Russell Kirk conservative in most things. More importantly, though, I am husband of the beautiful Diane, the father of four, and grandfather of nine.
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