Society
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The harvest is abundant!
Luke 10:1-12 The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few… I have always thought that being a missionary would be an amazing call. Responding to Jesus’ call and going somewhere new and different to spread the Good News. To change lives and help people get to know Jesus Christ and His radical love. In Continue reading
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Our Bodies are Not Our Own
Today is the 13th Sunday in Ordinary time, and this year it is also about the halfway point between the Feast of the Ascension and the Feast of the Assumption. Both of those events involve a body going to Heaven. Today, I would like us to think about the importance of our bodies in God’s 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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CEO and NGO Catholics
Faithful Catholics have long derided what are known as CEO Catholics: Christmas and Easter Only. It is easy to conclude one is not really a Catholic if one only comes to Mass twice a year, when everybody goes to whatever church they belong to, if only to be seen going to church or because it 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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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
Bound in Love 