“Woe even to those of praiseworthy life if you put their life under scrutiny and remove mercy. But because you do not search our faults with rigour, we confidently hope for some place with you. If anyone lists his true merits to you, what is he enumerating before you but your gifts? If only […]
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Faith / Journal Pages
THE GOOD SAMARITAN (OCTOBER 26, 2022)
Have you ever lived a Holy Moment, a moment when unexpected and unannounced—but suddenly, undeniably, a weight of moment and presence? I lived one in an AutoZone today. I had made a mess of a motor-service and needed oil-dry to clean our farm shop floor. Maybe it’s funny, or fitting, how God appears […]
Faith
1 CORINTHIANS 13
“If I speak to you in tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. […]
Bible Thought / Faith
THE BOOK OF JONAH
It’s only three pages, only four chapters, and yet almost everyone knows its story. Jonah and the Whale! Its absurdity is something that sticks out—to be swallowed in the belly of a fish and spit back out. That’s the simple tale as passed around. But it does hold deeper elements in the story […]
Faith / Journal Pages
AN INVESTMENT
This morning, I went to mass with my youngest son. Of those that were up, only he desired to go; and so we went. When it came time for the offering, I drew out my wallet uncertain and having little clue what might be there. Five dollars, all ones; I grabbed them all […]
Bible Thought / Faith
JOHN 9: SIGHT TO THE BLIND
I listened to this reading today in mass. Today, in it, I heard nuances in the story that never really struck me before, and it made me reflect. The story begins with a man, blind from birth. As was the common belief then—and I would guess remains for many still, even when left […]
Faith / Journal Pages
TRANSFIGURATION
“And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow…and as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud […]
Faith / Short Story
REASON WHY
“Now I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful; but because you were made sorrowful unto penance. For you were made sorrowful according to God, that you might suffer damage by us in nothing. For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world […]
Faith / SONG
PERSPECTIVE FROM A PEW
“Sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”—Itzhak Perlman Our father shared this quote with us today. He used it in his homily reflecting on today’s readings. In it, he spoke in acknowledgment of the first and third readings; the […]