Recovery for Christ is shutting down
The Recovery for Christ social network for Catholics recovering from alcoholism and addictions will be shutting down as of July 19th, when the domain name registration expires. I am sorry for any...
View ArticleClearing your mind of distractions
There was a commercial that ran on American TV a decade ago. I do not remember for what product. Anyway, it featured Phil Jackson, the Head Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, as a cab driver. Some...
View ArticleOut of touch
As the owner/operator of a niche blog I more than likely exist along the margins or back alleys of the Catholic blogosphere. Not that I don’t have any friends or contacts amongst other bloggers, ’cause...
View ArticleRevived Catholic-based recovery network possibly starting on Monday (Feast of...
There is a tentative plan for a new Catholic-based recovery network to start on Monday, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. OLG has nothing to do with addiction recovery, but I just think that it would...
View ArticleMatt Talbot Way of Recovery
The launch of the “revived Catholic-based recovery network” is on! I actually started it last night, on the Vigil of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is called the “Matt Talbot Way of Recovery.”...
View ArticleEmergency Prayer Request (UPDATED)
The mother-in-law of a friend of mine on Google+ may face imminent discharge from a hospital because “she has already cost the insurance company too much money.” She has been diagnosed with a...
View ArticleSober Catholic Books on Google+
Fresh off of creating a Page for them on Facebook, my books, The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics and The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts now also share a Page on Google+,...
View Article54 Day Rosary Novenas
The Rosary has been an important part of my devotional and spiritual life ever since I sobered up and reverted to the Church in 2001/02. I have said it daily (most of the time ) and have even used it...
View ArticleYear of Faith
On October 11, 2012, the “Year of Faith” began. Announced a few months ago by Pope Benedict XVI, the latest in a series of “Years of…” is intended to aid Catholics in learning more about their Faith....
View ArticleLiving Sober through the Psalms
Regina, a/k/a Number 9, over at Catholic Alcoholic has ANOTHER blog that she posts to EVERY DAY! Living Sober through the Psalms is the name and daily blogging through the Psalms is its game! I...
View ArticleNot Saints Yet
Number 9, over at Catholic Alcoholic mentioned today about a new organization for Catholics suffering from addictions. Called Not Saints Yet, it is, to quote from their website, “…a new organization...
View ArticleNovena To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus
Today is the first day of the Sacred Heart Novena. As a courtesy, I will be posting it daily from the site “Pray More Novenas,” but not here. I will instead be posting it to the Sober Catholic Blog...
View ArticleMatt Talbot Way of Recovery on Facebook and Google+
I have been running the Matt Talbot Way of Recovery email discussion group on Yahoo since December 2011, and like past endeavors of mine to establish a Catholic-based recovery discussion community, it...
View ArticleTwelve Step Online Video Conference Meetings
A while back on the Yahoo version of the MTW, there was discussion about online video conference meetings. That never went anywhere. The few times I tried to join where it was being hosted, the...
View ArticleAlcoholism Recovery and the Pro-Life Movement
Today, January 22nd, is the “anniversary” of the United States Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion. You might be wondering why I would bother blogging about it. The fact that I am pro-life...
View ArticleOnline Recovery
For a variety of reasons that I’ll lay out in another post, I have decided to return to active Twelve Step meeting attendance in Alcoholics Anonymous. One thing that I started doing as a prelude or a...
View ArticleSober Catholic on YouTube
This blog now has an “expanded presence” online: a YouTube Channel! See: Sober Catholic on YouTube. I have not, nor am likely to in the near future, upload videos. But I have subscribed to a number of...
View ArticleTwitter update for @sobercatholic
I recently found out that Twitter has a follow limit of 2,000. That’s the maximum number of accounts that you can follow. So I decided to review who or what I’m following and “cull the herd,” so to...
View ArticleAwestruck Network USA Tour 2014
UPDATED (see below after the strikethrough): Some South African Catholics who’ve started the “Awestruck Catholic Social Network” will be travelling to the USA in November to film a guest spot on EWTN’s...
View ArticleAwestruck for Catholic Bloggers
If you are a Catholic blogger, the Awestruck Catholic Social Network offers some interesting tools. I mentioned ACSN before: Awestruck Network USA Tour 2014 Regarding these blogging tools, to quote...
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