We have survived Easter and the fifty days. We ease back into the routine of life and the down time of summer, school’s out. The liturgical year slips into its benign period and for a while anyway spiritual demands are not…
Diet
A New Catholic Sister
As a convert, close spiritual relationships with my Catholic sisters-in-the-Lord are among God’s most treasured and healing gifts. One Catholic sister-in-the-Lord, is dying of brain cancer. She’s the Grateful-for-Adversity Grandmother I wrote about last year. I went to visit her…
In The Game of Life, The Rules Are God’s Will
This game of life we’re playing is really God’s game. Creation and our role in this world are based upon God’s plan and essentially His will. Everything that happens, good or bad, planned or unplanned, new or old, is either…
God Is Not Fair and Other Reasons for Gratitude
Two thoughts from reading the title of this book drew me to it immediately. One, I thought,” thank God he isn’t fair” and two, “I need to practice more gratitude.” If you are interested in thinking deeply about living as…
Compassion
Tell them not to speak evil of anyone, but to be peaceful and friendly, and always to show a gentle attitude toward everyone. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. Titus 3: 2-3a It’s so hard to keep…
Divine Providence is God Giving Anonymously
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus teaches us to ask God the Father to “give us this day our daily bread”. By “daily bread”, Jesus means the things we need each day to live. But what does it look like when…
The Ladder to Heaven
St. Maximilian Kolbe said of our Blessed Mother, “What a marvelous ladder for climbing to Him… And it is the very same whereby He came down to us!” (Roman Conferences, IV) According to the saint, she is a ladder for…
A Very Special type of Mom
We can learn to better our Faith from Special Needs Mothers. How so? They believe without seeing. Let’s start with Mom’s in general. How important is a Mom? Is it any surprise that Jesus performed His first miracle based on…
10 Commandments in the Modern World Part VIII: Don’t Bear False Witness
“Do Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor.” The most basic reformulation of this principle is “Don’t lie.” Most of us understand this idea as something that was instilled in us as soon as we could talk. We are taught…
Are You Refilling the Well?
We recently heard the Gospel about Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. When Jesus asks for a drink of water, she tells him that the well is deep, and she points out that Jesus doesn’t even have a…