“I prayed, but nothing happened.” How often have we heard these words? Maybe they came from someone in an argument about faith. Maybe they came from a child trying to understand God’s plan. Or maybe these words came from ourselves…
Prayer Is Not Magic
Lessons of the Sower, Part 4: The Good Soil
Previous posts in this series: Part 1: The Path, Part 2: The Rocks, Part 3: The Thorns. The final part of our series reflection on the Parable of the Sower is the happy ending. Now, I am a firm believer…
Lessons of the Sower, Part 3: The Thorns
In our last two articles we reflected on the nature of distraction and how Satan uses that to keep us from letting Christ into our lives, and how a merely emotional connection to faith will cause that faith to die….
Lessons of the Sower, Part 2: The Rocks
In our last article we reflected on the nature of distraction and how Satan uses that to keep us from letting Christ into our lives. Today, we are going to focus on the seed that fell on the rocks. Jesus…
Lessons of the Sower, Part 1: The Path
Sharing the joy of the Gospel is not always an easy thing. There are many challenges that lay before us. That is why Jesus told us the Parable of the Sower. In it, a man sows seeds which represent God’s…
The Hypocrisy Problem
Anyone who has tried to pass on the Gospel, be it in the classroom, in the home, or every day life, has encountered the hypocrisy problem. We are calling people to goodness and holiness. Yet most of us are keenly…
Tenebrae: A Light in the Darkness
Anyone who does not see darkness in the world is blind. Think of the darkness in the world. Conflict and wars all over the world, with the nation’s military spread thin throughout the regions. And the more there is military…
On the Necessity of Self-Love
I remember growing up in the 1980’s. One of the big musical hits was Whitney Houston’s, “The Greatest Love of All.” It had wonderful lyrics about believing that children are our future, overcome adversity, etc. But it wasn’t until I…
St. Joseph: Wonder Worker
I pray to St. Joseph every single day. Someone once said to me that St. Joseph actually had it pretty hard in his house. He sat down at the dinner table between the Incarnate Word and the Immaculate Conception; if…
Resolution in the Abstract
I am not qualified to write this article. I will freely admit that up front, lest anyone accuse me of presenting a better picture of myself than what is found in reality. But truth is truth and the truth is…