Climb That Sycamore Tree: Learning How to Live From the Blind Man of Jericho and Zachaeus
November 19, 2012 No CommentsZaccheus teaches us to learn to listen for the voice of God in our personal lives and respond without holding anything back.
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Learning the Way of the Love Which Creates Equality
August 22, 2012 No CommentsLove creates equality, says St. Augustine of Hippo in one of his sermons. St. John of the Cross reiterates the same principle in his Spiritual Canticle: “It is the property of love to place him who loves on an equality with the object of his love.” Love creates equality. This is an important spiritual principle.
Add Friends, Delete Friends
January 18, 2012 No CommentsMy brother wins in my book for the coolest post ever on Facebook. One day out of the blue he just writes something like: “just went from 650 friends to about 400. If you’re reading this post, I guess it means you’re still my friend.”
Fr. Paul Schenck Reflects on the Feast of Mary, the Mother of God
January 1, 2012 No CommentsIn order to win us back to himself, to “reclaim” us and restore us in love, God chose to become one of us, to know us up close and personal. He “descended” into our world – with us, beside us. Just as each of us begins with our mothers, and that is a hugely important aspect of our personal identity, of our personal experience: it’s simply and essentially human to have our mothers
Cohabitation and Marriage: Not Equal Alternatives
December 2, 2011 No CommentsOne of the main reasons for the decrease in the married population and the increase in the single population is the growth of cohabitation by unmarried couples…
Time to End the Execution of Children in the Womb and of Adults by Capital Punishment
November 26, 2011 No CommentsI have always opposed capital punishment. However, the Church has not and does not teach that Capital Punishment is intrinsically evil.
The History of Thanksgiving – Rooted in Faith
November 24, 2011 No Comments46 million turkeys-around 550 million pounds-will be consumed during Thanksgiving this year. But that’s not how it began!
Deacon Fournier’s Reflection: The Presentation of Mary in the Temple by Joachim and Anne
November 21, 2011 No CommentsMary’s response to the invitation of a God who always respects human freedom, is a singularly extraordinary event in all of human history. However, it is meant to be much more. It is meant to be an invitation to each one of us to explore our own personal histories and to write them anew in Him by joining our own “yes” to hers. On this Feast of the Presentation of Mary, let us make the choice to surrender ourselves to the same Lord. That is how we can bring this Feast to life in our own age and continue to participate in God’s plan for the whole human race.
