Is there a more oft repeated phrase in contemporary American Catholicism then “Be a saint”? In our lukewarm land it is our go-to phrase for trying to inspire our paralyzed pews to become activated, engaged Catholics. We all need to …
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We have heard the word ‘devil’ since our childhood, but what does it literally mean? We know it describes the being who is our enemy and adversary, but it has something else to say to us. The devil is rather …
Continue readingThis is one of the best Christmas songs around with which to just sit and pray. Desperation, glory, newness, joy, wonder, surprise, salvation, beauty, the fulfillment of a promise and simple surrender – they are all here. My typical response …
Continue readingThe word ‘witness’ is used a lot, but what does it mean? It can be somewhat intimidating, because in Catholic circles our first instinct is to hear it as ‘doing apologetics’. And that has to be something that takes a …
Continue readingIt is Advent. ‘Tis the season of hope – of waiting, of promise, of “not yet”. To celebrate, here are some great thoughts on hope by some of our forefathers. C.S. Lewis Lewis helps remind us that hope is essentially …
Continue readingNote: words can be confusing on this topic; by ‘dating’ in this post, I am not talking about just ‘going on dates’, but the next step: boyfriend-girlfriend, intentional courtship. In our day, few things are less straightforward than dating. Questions, …
Continue readingNo one needs any convincing that we live in a break-neck-speed culture. More than anything, we are busy. So if we go, go, go almost all the time, then why is it that we intentionally take times to not do …
Continue readingThis quote is amazing: Life is not regarded as an uninterrupted flow of words which is finally silenced by death. Its rhythm develops in silence, comes to the surface in moments of necessary expression, returns to deeper silence, culminates in …
Continue readingOur culture no longer speaks the language of the Gospel. That’s obvious. Chief among these is our total disregard for sin. No longer even just a quaint idea, it is seen as actually pretty hurtful. It makes people feel bad …
Continue readingWe have a strange promise from Scripture: history will end in utter catastrophe. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, …
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