“But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of […]
Browsing Tag: Faith
Short Story
UNTIL AFFECTION
“…but Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.”—Luke 2: 19 He read in the predawn morning—body, mind, and spirit waking slowly in self-ritual well before rising of the sun. Something struck, an affection that moved within; and when it came, he rose and moved to a small table where he wrote […]
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
REFLECTION IN ASH
“The presence of the Lord implies liberty, the one follows the other; for the more intimately present the Lord is, the more free is man; that is, in proportion as he is in the love of good and truth he acts freely. Such is the nature of the Lord’s influx by means of angels. […]
Journal Pages / Short Story
REAPER
“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
WONDER
We will never fully know what others around us are going through. We’ll never fully know the difference we might make, even when we do not intentionally try, when crossing through another’s life. To someone down, seeking for a reason to rise, we will never know the power in an offered smile in another’s […]
Journal Pages
SOUL SHIFT
“You speak of despair,” she spoke, “but today, words are used absent common understandings so that they bear no meaning unless followed on by greater definition. What is despair to you?” He thought, shaping his thought and giving order to the sense, “Despair is when you know the man you should be, are […]
Quick Thought
JUNE 7, 2020: A MESSAGE
I believe in Divine Providence. I believe the influence, effect, and messaging of God within our world is real even when we sometimes misconstrue the meaning—something inevitable given the imperfect state in which we all, as humans, exist. I have witnessed and felt in my soul too many times messages in the Catholic Missal […]
Journal Pages
AN ANSWER
I don’t know how one can view a sunrise over a natural world and not believe in a Higher Power. Maybe we don’t call It God (though I do), but Something exists to give order to all that cannot be explained without faith. If we are to believe our present scientific theorem—that the […]