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Saint Oscar Romero Update 6-29-2025

6/28/2025

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My sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ,
May God’s peace and joy be with you.  A few things of note, I am updating the small Saint Oscar Romero chapel in my residence.  I was able to complete a lot of the work last night with the help of my wife but I need to order a few additions, and I am awaiting a couple of icons to arrive. 

Second, I plan to begin posting a minimum of two times a prayer weekly.  I will explain more about this and how you can follow along when I begin this project.  I believe daily prayer is essential.  While I pray the office daily, I see some benefit to streaming it so we can pray communally.

Third, I have most of the faith formation videos completed through the end of the third quarter and a few in the fourth quarter.  This weekend, I posted a video on Catholics and the Bible.  I believe we Catholics need to grow in our awareness of the rich treasures contained within the Scriptures.  You can see the video linked below.

Fourth, I am working through a book on holy fools.  I have one video created and will be released in Q4 on this topic but may create another video.  Holy Fools are people called to a special vocation that are misunderstood by their contemporaries.   I believe it is an important vocation that a few have but it must be done with deep prayer, humility, and under guidance by a spiritual master.  We need holy fools today to challenge the pride and knowledge of the rich and powerful for Mary proclaims how God will cast down the mighty from their thrones.  Paul reminds us that God chose the weak to shame those who think they are something.

Finally, I am working on a faith formation video for later this year on Andy Warhol and Catholicism.  I had no idea he was Eastern Catholic and the importance of his faith in his life.  I am including a listing of links here below in case you are interested in reading more:
https://oldarchive.godspy.com/culture/Andy-Warhol-Transubstantiating-the-Culture.cfm.htm
https://www.warhol.org/warhols-relationship-with-catholicism-was-far-from-simple-still-he-evoked-god-through-his-art/
https://firstthings.com/andy-warhols-sacraments/
https://benedictinstitute.org/2019/08/andy-warhol/
https://guides.library.duq.edu/byzantine-catholic-warhol
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2022/01/07/catholicism-art-postmodern-242158
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/andy-warhols-religious-journey
https://jcrt.org/archives/01.3/carpenter.shtml
https://angelusnews.com/arts-culture/pop-heart-andy-warhols-complicated-catholicism/
https://nathaniel-metz.writeas.com/any-warhol-pop-art-and-the-inverse-of-christian-icons
https://now.fordham.edu/arts-and-culture/a-fordham-take-on-andy-warhols-iconic-catholicism/
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/02/02/andy-warhol-st-john-paul-ii-and-st-sebastian/
https://www.bkmag.com/2021/11/08/andy-warhol-comes-to-the-city-of-churches/
https://www.warhol.org/exhibition/vanitas/
May God bless and keep you.
Peace,
Rev. Ben
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