“Do all your work in love.” (1 Cor. 16: 14) “God, what does success look like to you in this situation?” I don’t know where I read this phrase, but I copied it on a sticky note and stuck it…
Redefining Success
Of Saints and Souls
It’s not often that God gives a glimpse of what awaits us in the afterlife. By pondering the lives of the saints and even the holy souls, we can gain a clearer understanding. We should not aspire to be mediocre…
The Hardest Work I Do: Evangelizing in My Home
Being on-fire for my faith is one thing when I’m out in public. Those people out there, after all, don’t see me first thing in the morning, before I’ve had my coffee or eased into the reality of a new…
Generosity’s Rules
We post moderns have many curiosities about the way we think and do things. For instance, some of us believe that a place for everything and everything in its place is a great way to live. It makes things neat…
Doing what is right even when it is difficult
Anyone who has tried to be good discovers quite quickly that goodness can be difficult. The thing that is right is not always the same as the thing that is easy: doing what is right will sometimes mean doing difficult…
Shabbat Dinner and this Catholic GUEST
As a young man I attended a Catholic high school for two years. One of the best courses I ever had and still remember is Religions of the World. We covered different religious beliefs and it gave me an appreciation…
Don’t Fear the “Small Faith Group”
It wasn’t long ago that the mention of a “small faith group” would have sent me scrambling for the nearest exit. If offered a choice between participating in one and shaving off my eyebrows, I would have had to get…
The Root of All Evil?
Sunday Readings for July 31, 2016 the 18th Sunday of the Year In his space trilogy, C.S. Lewis called him ‘the Bent one.” That is really an apt name for the one the Bible is calls “Satan” or the Accuser….
Suffering & Sweetness
Days ago this quote came to my inbox: “All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord” (Ignatius of Loyola). Days ago I…
But…..It’s Just Me
So we have arrived at the place that Bishop Fulton Sheen, John XXIII and JPII told us was imminent. We’re there, the society that scoffs at all forms of life, ridicules God and has named every sin as good if…