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Let Nothing Upset You 18 Jul 2011 | 08:41 am
For everyone who complains, rants, yells, screams, cries, worries, wishes, wants, agonizes, anlayzes, deliberates, frets or frowns, I offer Teresa of Avila's wisdom: "Let nothing upset you, let noth...
Truth Will Impose Itself 27 Dec 2010 | 05:49 pm
Pope John Paul the Great: "The Church imposes nothing; the Church only proposes something, but what we propose, we believe to be the Truth, and the Truth will impose itself on the human heart." The s...
Searching In All the Wrong Places 24 Oct 2010 | 04:20 am
"Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the l...
The Case of the Woman with the Twisted Face 17 Sep 2010 | 03:44 pm
I remember meeting an apoplectic woman driving a rather large tank of a car. We faced off in a dirt lot that served as overflow parking for the parish festival. I didn't know what to make of the situ...
"I Don't Care What You Think About Me" 26 Aug 2010 | 05:09 pm
If people really didn't care about what the world thinks of them and only what God does, we'd be living in Eden (before the fall). Others choose not to make any reference to God but still offer an un...
Weakness Is Not An Obstacle 21 Aug 2010 | 11:23 am
"How is that heart of yours getting along? Don't worry: the saints – who were perfectly ordinary, normal beings like you and me – also felt those 'natural' inclinations. And if they had not felt them,...
Suffering of Love 15 Aug 2010 | 05:20 am
The following is an exercpt from: Suffering of Love: Christ’s Descent into the Hell of Human Hopelessness (Ignatius Press, 2006), by Regis Martin, a theologian and faculty member of the Franciscan Uni...
Open Rebuke and Hidden Love 5 Aug 2010 | 04:57 pm
Proverbs 27:5-6 "Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy." I don’t think my parents ever cited Proverbs 27 but I KNOW they sai...
TV Parenting? 27 Jul 2010 | 03:10 pm
All the world's a stage and one TV in its time plays many parts. It's a distraction, a white noise generator, a frame on the wall above an empty mantle, a last-ditch, on-call, handle-it-all babysittin...
Priest Prophet and King 23 Jul 2010 | 02:57 pm
Sometimes, my mind likes to wander away without telling me where it's going. Thankfully, it's only gone for a few seconds (my wife begs to differ). Sometimes I end up in rainbow-land, or in fields ful...
