“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
“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
“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
“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
“We are surrounded by miracles, every day, but we have become so accustomed to them we fail to see them.” The Camel An old story tells us about the first time man saw a camel. According to the story the first man to ever see a camel was frightened byContinue Reading
From the Rheinau Psalter, circa A.D. 1260 In his book “The Spirit of the Liturgy,” Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, touches upon the difference between the Iconographic art form and the Gothicart form. “The depiction(in the Gothic) is no longer of the Pantocrator, the Lord of all, leading us intoContinue Reading
“Faith is the remedy for fear. If we have faith, there is little we need fear.” It sometimes seems that our pilgrimage here on earth takes us through a landscape of fear. We are surrounded by circumstances and situations we do not understand, and ignorance can lead us toContinue Reading