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“14 Moments” — The Stations of the Cross, Set to Music

At 3pm on Fridays in Lent, Catholics around the world pause.

We walk.
We remember.
We pray the Passion.

The Stations of the Cross are not a performance.
They are a meditation — fourteen moments tracing the road from condemnation to the tomb.

This is a standard Catholic practice.
A weekly return to Calvary.
A disciplined remembering of what love cost.

So I took all fourteen stations and broke them into seven verses — two stations at a time — so they could live inside one song.

Not rushed.
Not sentimental.
Steady. Intentional. Lenten.

Each verse moves forward.
Each refrain returns us to the Church’s proclamation:

“We proclaim Your death, O Lord,
and profess Your Resurrection
until You come again.”

This isn’t background music.

It’s meant to be prayed.

🎶 “14 Moments” — for anyone who walks the Stations.
For anyone who kneels at 3pm on a Friday in Lent.
For anyone who wants to linger at the Cross a little longer.

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“Like the Angels” — Celibacy Is Biblical (And It Always Was)

If your church has no one celibate — no one vowed to God alone — you are not looking at the New Testament Church.

That sounds bold. It’s meant to.

Celibacy isn’t medieval.
It isn’t “forced.”
It isn’t anti-marriage.
It’s biblical.
At Sinai, Israel abstained before the Lord descended.
In battle, soldiers restrained themselves under vow.
Numbers records women freely binding themselves by vow.
Anna lived consecrated in the Temple.
Jesus said some can receive celibacy — and if they can, they should.
Paul was celibate — and suggested others be, if they were able.

And when the Sadducees tried to corner Christ about marriage in the resurrection, He answered plainly: in the age to come, we are neither married nor given in marriage, but like the angels.

Marriage is good — for time and flesh.
Celibacy says: resurrection’s next.
This song isn’t arguing that everyone must be celibate.
It’s arguing something simpler:
Not everyone.
Not forced.
But always there.
If celibacy feels strange, it’s not because Christianity invented something odd — it’s because modernity trained us out of something ancient.
(For the record: I am fairly certain celibacy is not my personal calling. I very much like being married. But I also very much know it’s a valid, biblical, and beautiful calling in the Church.)

🎶 “Like the Angels” — a fast, dry, slightly sarcastic track walking through Scripture and asking a simple question:

If the New Testament Church always had celibates… why doesn’t yours?

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📅🥖🍷 “On The First Day Of The Week”
(Sunday, Not Sabbath)

Some people insist Christians “changed the day.”

But long before denominations…
long before printing presses…
long before chapter and verse numbers…

Christians were already gathering
on the first day of the week.

Not because an emperor said so.
Not because Rome “stole” anything.
But because the tomb was empty on Sunday.

The Gospels repeat it.
Acts 20:7 shows believers breaking bread on Sunday.
1 Corinthians 16:2 assumes Sunday offerings.
Revelation calls it “the Lord’s Day.”

And Paul?

“Let no one pass judgment on you
with regard to a Sabbath…
These are a shadow of things to come.”
(Colossians 2:16–17)

Joshua didn’t give the rest God meant.
Hebrews says there was another Day still ahead.

CHRIST is our rest.

From the Didache (A.D. 90)
to Ignatius (A.D. 110)
to Justin Martyr (A.D. 150),

we see the same pattern:

They heard the Scriptures proclaimed.
They offered the prayers.
They broke the Bread 🥖

The rhythm that still shapes every Mass:

The Liturgy of the Word.
The Liturgy of the Eucharist.

This isn’t innovation.
It’s resurrection.

Creation began on the first day.
The New Creation began on the first day.

And Christians have gathered ever since.

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📜✨ NEW SONG: “WHAT WE BELIEVE” — the Nicene Creed, line-by-line… because if someone asked you what you believe, you should be able to say it.

Most people can talk about “Jesus” in general terms.
But the Creed is the Church’s weekly, public confession—sharp, specific, and weirdly beautiful:

✅ One God, the Father Almighty
✅ One Lord, Jesus Christ—true God from true God
✅ Incarnation, Cross, Resurrection, Ascension
✅ The Holy Spirit—Lord and giver of life
✅ One, holy, catholic, apostolic Church
✅ One baptism… resurrection… the world to come

This track is basically catechism with a groove: deadpan talk-singing, tight rhythm, and a slight 80s tint—wry, but not irreverent.

If you’ve ever stumbled when someone asked, “So what do Catholics actually believe?”
Start here. Learn the Creed. Pray the Creed. Mean the Creed.

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"Straw Men & Windmills" — Stop Winning Fake Debates

Confession:

Sometimes I win arguments against people who don’t actually exist.

It’s easy.
You slightly exaggerate their position.
Trim off the nuance.
Ignore their strongest thinkers.
Then knock down the cartoon version and call it apologetics.

I’ve done it. You’ve probably done it. Welcome to the internet.

This song is a reminder — mostly to myself — that charity in debate doesn’t just mean “be nice.” It means represent the strongest version of your opponent’s argument before you answer it.

That’s what the early Church did.

St. Irenaeus didn’t mock the Gnostics with lazy summaries. He painstakingly wrote out their system in detail before dismantling it. He understood them first.

St. Thomas Aquinas structured entire objections stronger than his critics did — before offering his response. He built the best version of the argument he disagreed with.

That’s intellectual honesty.
That’s confidence in truth.

Now — does that mean we can’t ever be sharp?

No.

Jesus used hyperbole.
Paul used sarcasm.
Caricature has its place.
Exaggeration can reveal absurdity.

But it should be strategic — not lazy.
Occasional — not habitual.
Surgical — not sloppy.

If your argument only wins against a weaker version of the claim… you didn’t really win.

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