Living With Nonstop Pain
Imagine that you have to live with nonstop pain 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. How would you cope with such a condition? How would it change …
Category: Personal
Waiting for Death’s Arrival
“She’s gone.” Those were the saddest and worst words I had ever heard. “She” was my wife. As I looked at her lifeless body, I was stunned by the …
“… mercy, healing, and surrender are inseparably connected…”
Who among your circle of family, friends and loved ones might be in need of God’s great mercy? Who among them might have dragons that need slaying? Who among …
Doing something remarkable
Yesterday, Deacon Greg wrote: The simple fact is: this can’t be a day like any other. Scripture tells us that on the day Christ died, the world – literally …
What would you do?
Meet Pastor Thomas Rusert, a man of God who I think gets it… and gives it in return: I drink coffee only on Thursdays. This is partly because I …
“That the Blessed Virgin Mary is called Mother of God is not pious boilerplate…”
Happy New Year to one and all on this day, the day we Catholics commemorate and celebrate the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, a Holy Day of …
“But there’s something more substantial than the eye candy, something lingering in the silence.”
Norm Pattis is a renown defense lawyer, an author, a frequent guest on the talking head circuit and interestingly enough, he describes himself as someone “who never darkens the door …
A light will shine on us this day: the Lord is born for us.
When the kindness and generous love of God our savior appeared, not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, He saved us through …
Is there room?
Is there room to fight jihadists, and I mean to the death, while also feeling concern, even compassion, for refugees? Is it an either/or situation or a both/and situation? …
A go-back…
… to a post I published a year ago today: There are many who equate proselytization, the act of using coercion or force to convert someone to the faith, …