About

I’m a recently divorced Catholic Dad working to support my children and attempting to respond to the persistent call to write stuff down and get it out there. This is my attempt to do so. My education has been in political philosophy, politics, philosophy, and theology. I have a Bachelors in Political Philosophy with a minor in Philosophy from Catholic University and a Masters in Theology with a concentration in Moral Theology from the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College. Here I am concentrating on a few topics such as spirituality, the unique modern experience of a kind of diaspora, parenting, and anything that I might feel called to speak on. Thank you for reading.

In Christ and His Church,

Joseph Horan

I’ve realized that there is no way to sugar coat the reality of divorce. This thing that Christ condemned with his own words recounted by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is now part of my personal reality. One thing I know is that God can and does work in the circumstances created by tragic events. God’s power to heal is unfathomable, and his love for each of us is beyond anything we can imagine. I may have failed in avoiding divorce in my life, but with God’s help I won’t fail in picking up my cross and following my Savior in the real circumstances that I am faced with. In following Him faithfully, whatever sorrows or joys God may still have in store for me in this life, I hope to be with him in the next. Please say a prayer for me and my family, that God will bless my children in spite of the suffering they are going through. My last post years ago was about Christ as the King of Wreckage. Now I ask our Lord to recreate me according to his loving will. I’ve only in the last several months begun to enrich my prayer life in various ways. Perhaps, somehow mysteriously, I needed this tragedy to draw nearer to God. The Holy Ghost is using sorrowful circumstances to bless me, and I am so grateful.

“Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.” St. Faustina