Bound in Love

Man and Wife, Claimed by Christ, Bound in Love, Stumbling toward Heaven

Christian Living

  • The Model of the Holy Family

    Yesterday we celebrated the Incarnation. It is also the Nativity of the Lord. It is a solemn celebration of the mystical reality that God became man, that God, who is the author of all creation, sent himself, his only son in human flesh, to live with us and share our earthly experience. And he came Continue reading

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  • Freedom Rider

    My father would have been 90 today. He was an idealist, but also a depressive, so he rarely followed through with the actions implied by his strongly held beliefs. He was a Platonist rather than an Aristotelean. But at least once in his life, he took great risk and really made a stand for his Continue reading

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  • Virtuous Relationships

    I’m here tonight to talk to you about how to develop and maintain holy and virtuous relationships with your beloved. The formation process for the permanent diaconate involves a fair amount of intellectual learning, but I’m also going to share with you some of the insights I have gained just through normal – maybe a Continue reading

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  • The Wedding at Cana

    This past Sunday was the second Sunday in Ordinary time, and the Gospel reading in Year C was the story in John 2 of Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding in Cana. On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.  Jesus and his disciples Continue reading

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  • The human person

    I had a nice conversation with a young adult whose sister will be married in a few months to a wonderfully kind and fun young man. My young conversationalist is a man of simple faith, not one who attends church on a regular basis but one who believes in the Christian God. Like so many Continue reading

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  • Tuning in to the major thing

    The readings for the 25th Sunday in ordinary time remind us that we live in a fallen world. The world we live in has separated itself from God’s plan for the world when he created it. We have concepts of law and justice and righteousness and transgressions but they no longer mean what God intended Continue reading

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  • Justin evangelist

    Justin evangelist

    Today, on the feast of Justin the Martyr, we are reminded that in his last speech to his Roman executioner, Rusticus, that he died preaching the Good News. Answering Rusticus’ question on the Christian teaching, Justin said: Worship the God of the Christians. In this simple statement, Justin acknowledges that there are other gods to Continue reading

  • I love you but No

    There was a teacher at my kids’ high school who would often respond to the students’ persistent requests with an unassailable conversation stopper: I love you, but No. For the kids, it was the last word in that sentence which resonated. They didn’t really believe the first part. And that is understandable, for much of Continue reading

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