Dominic de Souza, SmartCatholics founder | Marketer & storyteller. Geeks over epics, mystics, science, the angelic, & Netflix
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Sitting in a quiet room | Writing exercise
It's a weird sense. A strange sense. Walking into a silent room, a silent house, surrounding by a silent town. Wrapped in quiet fields. No internet. None of the ADHD hum and click and swish and swipe of a network, or of social media. No notifications. Sitting down on...
Chasing the Christ Child: How Raising a family taught me to love God in the little things
In this episode, Dominic de Souza shares with Sha Nacino lessons he learned to love God in the little things as he raised his family. Listen here Topics Covered: What's the big lesson being in love has taught you? Why is suffering the path to true love? What has...
Emmanuel Event: Fireside Chat with Paola Ciskanik & Dominic
Catholic Homeschool Community · God - With - Us Fireside Chat With Dominic De Souza & Paola Ciskanik
Christmas as Evangelization. Wait… what?
Post-coffee mulling this Saturday morning: a key danger of defaulting to apologetics (well reasoned defences) for evangelization, is this: People convert to an ideology. They fall in love with a beautiful idea. Christ stays as a headtrip. A philosophy. And our hearts...
The Lie about the Naked Truth
Something has been bothering me; the paradox of the truth shall set you free, and at the same time, it called the sword of truth. I love social media. But the way it's set up has soured an entire generation of discussion. In our last century, truth and lies have been...
The immaturity of Catholic Cancel Culture (A personal meditation)
Dictionary.com defines 'cancel culture' as the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures or companies after doing something offensive or deemed so. It's a massive problem among Catholics too. And I tell you what. I can't stand it. I see a...
Why Confirmation is the ‘Surprising Sacrament’
This morning was really struck by this thought. Confirmation is the Surprising Sacrament. here's why: It goes to work in your soul like a seed in the earth. Like yeast in bread. It's not like Confession, Baptism, or Eucharist. You receive those Sacraments, and you...
The Mysteries of the Rosary as a 5-Stage Hero’s Journey
The Mysteries of the Rosary retold from the point of view of the Hero’s Journey, focusing on the theme of Transformation through 20 steps of choice and act.
Fra Angelico & the Watchmaker’s Daughter
Fra Angelico is interrupted during Lauds to receive a mysterious child. He is then taken on a midnight Christmas visit to rescue a lost, little girl.