Unbelievable

January 27, 2012 by

“You don’t even know all that I have done. You think God will have anything to do with me if he knows me. I’ve been there…(Read More)

The Bible as a place of sacramental encounter

January 26, 2012 by

Approached in a prayerful manner, the Bible is found to be always contemporary–not just writings composed in the distant past but a message addressed directly to me here and now. “He who is humble in his thoughts and engaged in spiritual work,” says St. Mark the Monk, “when he reads the Holy Scriptures will…(Read More)

Conversion of St. Paul

January 25, 2012 by

I’m afraid in the world of spreading The Good News In Christ, the institutional church in the past century, has been too complacent to “kick for one”–and the result is declining membership in the mainline denominations…(Read More)

The cost of saying “Yes”

January 24, 2012 by

As much as Li Tim-Oi suffered at the hands of the Japanese and the Communists, the rejection by her church of her priestly vocation must have been one of the hardest battles she had to endure… It’s hard to be a prophet, and it’s hard to be the first. It’s hard…(Read More)

Helping Someone Suspicious

January 23, 2012 by

Jesus does good without recourse to the relative merit, or lack of merit, of the royal official. He did not reject the man because he was a servant of Herod Antipas, despite the cruel treatment to John…(Read More)

Too much of a good thing

January 22, 2012 by

It’s also important to consider that human nature reveals at times our “magnanimous” behavior isn’t always as magnanimous as it seems. I call it “The Mismatched Pieces of Pie Gambit…(Read More)

Children and millstones

January 21, 2012 by

The disciples asked who was the greatest in the kingdom of heaven but I don’t think they liked the answer…(Read More)

Reconciliation through Faith, Blessing and Spirit

January 20, 2012 by

All three of today’s readings invite Christians and all other religious people to develop creative relationships toward one another in our different religious expressions…(Read More)

Love without limits or qualifications

January 19, 2012 by

Only God our Lord can give the soul consolation without a preceding cause. For it is the prerogative of the Creator alone to enter the soul, depart from it, and cause a motion in it which draws the person wholly into love of his Divine Majesty. By “without cause” I mean without any previous perception…(Read More)

Either Progress or Slip Back

January 18, 2012 by

We can practice faith, hope and love. We can produce the fruits of the Spirit. We can live in conscious union with God. In fact, anything else is loss, something wasted that cannot be reclaimed…(Read More)

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