We’re all sinners. We hurt each other. We hurt each other even when we purport to love each other. In fact, it is easiest to hurt when we also love. I’ve had relatives disparage my cooking. I could care less….
Vulnerability
Images
20-minute shortie treating a couple of my favorite Catholic artworks. The camcorder ran out of memory right at the end, so it’s a bit abrupt.
Protect Us From All Anxiety
Recently on Twitter someone I follow sent me this quote from Fr. Ron Rolheiser: “The opposite of fear is not doubt but anxiety.” The older I have become I have noticed more and more anxiety creeping into my life. But…
God gave me three chances
In Eve’s Apple, Marie Therese Kceif talks about her life as three chances, three careers, three marriages and three apples. “Many times in my life God has had to give me three or more chances in different ways and through…
St. Catherine of Siena and Prayer
Prayer has been heavily on my mind these last few weeks. It began on retreat when the question “how do you pray?” was posed and the group asked to respond. Everyone who answered talked about the prayers they say each…
Miracles Jesus Couldn’t Do
Readings for July 5, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Over the last two Sundays, the gospel of Mark has been making it abundantly clear that Jesus is indeed God Almighty, ruler of the world and lord over life and death….
The Flexibility To Serve
I’ve always found today’s Gospel reading difficult to understand. It felt as though Jesus was light years ahead of John’s disciples, and even his own for that matter. Then a thoughtful soul explained that, no, you really can’t fast in…
A Revolutionary Approach to the Bible: Jairus’ daughter & The Enlightenment
Readings for June 28, 2015, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time In the days when states were still “the colonies” and men wore powdered wigs, a new way of thinking captured the intelligentsia of the western world. “The miracle stories in…
A Seeking Heart: Lost and Found
Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope,” has been included in my scripture repertoire for about ten years…
The Philosophy of Laudato Si
Much has already been written about Pope Francis new encyclical. A great deal of that writing has analyzed the letter through a political lens. This is not illegitimate, as Pope Francis raises many issues that are explicitly political. And the…