Solitary Soul

  QUEEN MOTHER Mario D’Couto                You may sometimes hear non-Catholics and Protestants objecting to the title ‘Mediatrix’ applied to Our Lady by citing the words of St. Paul, who wrote that Christ is the One Mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5) and so this begs the question as to how can these two claims where Christ as the One Mediator and Our Lady as the Mediatrix be reconciled?        Well, to begin with, St. Paul, touched upon this mystery where he wrote, “ We are God’s co-workers” (1 Corinthians 3:9). Yet if Christ is the One Mediator, why would He have co-workers? Can’t God get the job done by Himself? Of course He can. But since He is a Father, His job is raising up mature sons and daughters and the way to do that is by making us co-workers.           We are children of God and this is not a metaphor or just a pious phrase but it is a reality. When...

  A KING NOT OF THIS WORLD Mario D’Couto             When we think of a king, the image that comes to mind is that of royalty, abundance, wealth and power. Yet, when we speak of Our Blessed Lord who is indeed, the King of Kings, none of these apply to Him, at least not in the sense of what we would think of in our normal way of human thinking and if you have read my previous blogpost/reflection “With greater power comes greater responsibility” [ here's the link to the blogpost/reflection,  https://insightsfromacommonman.blogspot.com/2022/11/with-great-power-comes-great.html ] this is something that I try to highlight, where the focus of Christ’s Kingdom was a spiritual one and not political nor was it about bringing economic prosperity. In as much as food, clothing, shelter and the basic needs of human life are important and have their place, it would be wrong to restrict human life to only the material sinc...

  PURITY IS MASCULINE Mario D’Couto             In a blogpost/reflection that I wrote last year called “Men of Valour” ( https://insightsfromacommonman.blogspot.com/2022/11/men-of-valour.html ), I mentioned about a documentary that I had watched. Now in that documentary, there was a man named Roosh V (whose real name is Daryush Valizadeh) who was a pick-up artist and was known for his misogynistic views. Today that same man is a transformed person and his testimony is inspiring, from being a fornicator to becoming a man of faith, which is something I highly recommend to check out ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0_5e5OvtM&t=23s ). If you compare the Roosh V of old to what he has become now, you would probably notice that what he taught and wrote about during the time before his conversion was nothing different from the red pill ideology and perhaps another famous person that comes to mind who is also known for ...