“Submission is a blessing, given freely out of love for God.” How do we react to challenge? When our beliefs are questioned do we entrench ourselves in what we believe or do we take time assess the solidity of the ground on which those beliefs are based? What if thatContinue Reading
“The work of the Church)…is to build the Kingdom of God, to bring more and more people into the friendship of Christ” The Woman Clothed with the Sun Titus Flavius Domitianus, known to history as Domitian, became emperor of Rome in A.D. 81. He was the first emperor to proclaimContinue Reading
“Companionship is also one of the greatest blessings we receive when we receive the precious Body and Blood.” Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, while he was president, was one day traveling with a group of companions on horseback across the countryside. At one point they came to a swollen river thatContinue Reading
Over at OSVTalks, Anthony D’Ambrosio gives a talk titled From Babel to Pentecost in which he asks an interesting question that I believe deserves a fuller answer. “How did we get from there to here?” How did we get from designing churches that look like this: To churches that lookContinue Reading
“True success lies on a different path, the one shown to us by Jesus.” The apostles are revered in the Christian church. They were the first “bishops” guiding the nascent Church through its first shaky steps. But they did not start out as the most promising group of men. InContinue Reading
“God requires us to bring the gifts that we have, however small or meager, so that His love can transform it and return it to us in good measure, flowing over.” G.K. Chesterton once said, “anything worth doing, is worth doing badly.” In other words, if we feel called toContinue Reading
“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning,” William Shakespeare. A trio of stories concerning Truth. The Devil One day the devil was walking along with one of his demons when they saw a man ahead of them bend down and pick up something shiny. “What did he find?” askedContinue Reading
“The Truth behind the legend of Saint George and the Dragon is that Good will triumph over Evil.” The Man, Saint, and Martyr The early gothic art form of the 12th-14th centuries, from which I draw much of my inspiration, borrowed many elements from the iconographic form that preceded it.Continue Reading
“Rejection and failure are facts of our existence.” How we respond to failure, rejection, or criticism says a great deal about our character and our commitment to what we believe in. When we find what we truly believe we are called to do, do we stick with it or doContinue Reading
“the crucifixion and the resurrection go together, they cannot be separated,” From the Rheinau Psalter, circa A.D. 1260 Just a few days earlier it appeared that all was lost. Jesus, whom the twelve had followed for the last three years, is arrested, condemned, and put to death in the mostContinue Reading