Category: Religion

• The Holy Door

  grace is not something one can earn through ritual or self-effort.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 13, 2025

  Mysticism, Psychology, Religion, Suffering

  absolution, agony and ecstasy, Catholicism, Flannery OConnor, Ganges ritual, Hindu, Hindus, Mohatma Ghandi, Muslims, Pope Francis, The game of CLUE, the rebirth, Vatican Holy Door

• Our Messy, Ugly America

  A much worse tragedy is that millions of kids do not know their dads or even have one.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 7, 2025

  Politics, Religion

  America the Beautiful, birth control pill, Catholicism’s Failure, Legion of Decency, New Oxford Review, obesity pandemic, soft porn, steamy love affairs, Sunday school, the Ugly American, TikTok, type -1 Diabetes

• The Vision Quest

  Billy Graham’s ministry indeed placed a central focus on metanoia—a Greek term meaning “repentance” or “spiritual rebirth”—which was pivotal in his evangelical outreach. His emphasis on this concept was both a hallmark of his preaching and a critique of what he saw as the institutional Church’s failure to prioritize personal transformation through faith in Christ.

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 23, 2024

  Education, Religion

  ancient-greece, ancient-history, Billy Graham, Blaise Pascal, bookish rreligionleigion, Cardnial Newman Society, Catholic education, Delta Force, greece, Green Beret, History, Jesuits, John Paul Catholic University, Luke 9:23 Pick up your cross daily, Metanoia or Spiritual Rebirth, Outward Bound, Pachamama, Pope Francis, Religion, Sophia Institute, Spartan vision quest, St Augustine, St Francis, St Ignatius Loyola, St John of the Cross, St Theresa Avilla, Worcester Polytech Global Outreach

• Dreams and Visions

  Since precognitive dreams have happened with an amazing accuracy, does this mean the future is indelibly scripted by our Divine Playwright?

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 3, 2024

  Psychology, Religion

  All the world’s a stage, As You Like It, Deja Vu, Mark Twain, One step Beyond, Precognitive dreams, TITanic

• Hologram Priests

  Hologram Priests will take confession at your convenience.

  RMDell’Orfano

  November 23, 2024

  Religion, Science

  catholic, chalice, eucharist, holgrams, prayer, Real Presence, red wine, Swiss Chapel

• Wickedness Personified

  Now I see the real me. I get to see what we wicked devils are all about, and it’s frightening.

  RMDell’Orfano

  November 10, 2024

  Politics, Religion, Wisdom

  bible, Cheryl Lee ralph, Democrats, god, jesus, sin, Wicked, wickedness personfied

• Halloween

  The greatest miracle worker was Saint Vincent Ferrer who resurrected thirty people from their graves.

  RMDell’Orfano

  October 31, 2024

  Mysticism, Religion

  50 years stigmatists, bilocation, faith, Free Masons, Hallows Eve, jesus, Jesus’s resurrection, Martin Luther King, nuclear energy, Padre PIo, Puritans, Salem witch hunt, scientific progress, St Vincent Ferrer, The Franciscan Order, the god of science, The Holy Ghost Butler’s Lives of teh Saints, Thomas Jeffersons’ bible, Virgin Mary, witchcraft

• Vanished

  I suspect Will Shakespeare encountered the Holy Ghost and dramatized his experience in metaphor.

  RMDell’Orfano

  October 14, 2024

  Psychology, Religion, Science, Uncategorized

  H.G.Wells, Hamlet, Holy Ghost, Myseries of teh unexplaihned, Only the Shadow knows., people who vanished into thin air, shakespeare, The Invisible Man

• The Tomorrow People

  Saints are not only rare but disconcerting. Even in scripture, they are often found embarrassing!’”

  RMDell’Orfano

  September 16, 2024

  Perception, Religion

  Autobiography of a yogi, bilocation, Hamlet, jesus, levitation, literature, Padre PIo, Roman Catholicism, shakespeare, telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, the tomorrow People, the Yesterday people, theatre, yogananda

• The No-Win Election

  Both sides think their favorite politician will be their savior. Both are unfortunately wrong, no matter who wins the election in November.

  RMDell’Orfano

  July 26, 2024

  Politics, Psychology, Religion

  assassination martyr hero, brain-dead devotees, Donald J Trump, donald-trump, joe-biden, kamal devi harris, kamala-harris, news, Politics, primal instinct: survival, rampant idolatry, socialist tack, the Inner Beast, the no-win election