To Be a Sinner
Every Christian has been and continues to be a sinner. Saints are sinners. Have you stopped lying? Have you stopped judging? Have you stopped murdering, even wi...
Tag: Jesus
Jesus Shares Your Suffering
Jesus, see my suffering! Please heal me! Please take away the pain! In his response to your prayer, God sometimes relieves your suffering. But He always joins y...
12 Mystical Places We Visit at Mass: #3 – Cana
At church, we have come to Bethlehem. We have sat with Jesus, listening and learning in the the synagogue at Nazareth. When we look up, we are at a wedding. The...
12 Mystical Places We Visit at Mass: #2 – Nazareth
Entering the church through its doors is like entering Bethlehem. But when we listen to the readings from the Hebrew scriptures, we are in Nazareth during the c...
St. Joseph Shared in the Passion of Jesus
On this Feast of St. Joseph, I’m reminded and awed by the sacrifice and faith of this man of whom we know so little. Yet he stands as the protector of the Churc...
Covered or Filled by the Blood of Christ?
I prefer not to be covered by the Blood of Christ, like God’s priests in the Temple, and the people they sprinkled with the blood of sacrificed lambs. God calle...
Who Whispered to Eve? Who Whispers to You?
Who whispers to you? It must be someone to whom you are especially close, since physical closeness is required. Anything less would usually be described as my g...
Hearts and the Holiness of Humility
You can’t help but feel smothered by hearts these days. Red hearts, pink hearts, fuzzy hearts, marble hearts. Hearts in silver, gold, and jewels. Hearts o...
God is love – St. Charbel Maklouf
Before the beginning was love. Everything came to be through love, and without love, nothing that has existed since the beginning, or is now, or will be forever...
