“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. […]
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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 […]
Faith / SONG
FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY (and song)
EPIPHANY: n. 1 (capitalized) : January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ. 2: an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being 3a: (1): a […]
Faith / Short Story
FULL CIRCLE
He was not a good Catholic, but he made efforts to improve; and isn’t that, perhaps, piece to life’s purpose: effort toward advancement and refinement, not in material or worldly sense, but for something of the soul, metric known to spirit and God but forever mystery to quantifiable means. He prayed the rosary […]
Faith
RETURNED
I believe God speaks in signs. I believe God communes in ways we may discern, even when we do not understand—when we open ourselves to receive and trust, live Faith, in what is shown. Even when unknowing to purpose and meaning to the sign; awareness to affection, and belief in its divine provision, is […]