Talking About The Faith Path

The church becomes a tomb (Holy Saturday) On the day after ‘Good Friday’, all Catholic churches lack the presence of the Sanctuary –Light, that is a reminder for the faithful that the Light-of-the-World is present under the form of bread. The Eucharistic presence is a true sign of what it...

A good explanation about why Jesus had to suffer the way he did, from a Catholic perspective. I think often about the sufferings of Christ Jesus, but the mystery deepens for me, about the love, the mercy, the forgiveness of all.

Living out of our true image and likeness “Go out to others and share the good news that God, our Father, walks at our side. He frees us from anonymity, from a life of emptiness and selfishness, and brings us to the school of encounter. He removes us from the fray of competition and...

Holy Week for Christians is unique to each Holy Week for Christians is unique to each. For some it is a week wherein they renew their faith and try to understand the mystery of Christ on a deeper level. For others, Holy Week is a time of distress; as if a heavy weight has been placed over...

Palm Sunday/The Rising of Lazarus from the dead On Palm Sunday, when Jesus entered Jerusalem, there was a lot of excitement about him. He was known in the area as a miracle worker, a healer, and for many, the coming Messiah who would usher in a new era for the Jewish Nation. He had a lot of...

Mercy Given To receive mercy is pure gift, no one can demand this healing balm, justice for-gone to touch a suffering soul, whose heart is hard from sin’s scalding wound, Pain received, and then shared, is sins legacy, others paying for the guilt of another, poisonous fruit, is evil’s gift...

What are we commanded (Self confrontation retreat) As Christians we are commanded to live in love. What does that mean? How does the understanding that we called to live in love help us in our desire to be able to grow in the virtue of humility so as to be able ‘to confront’ ourselves...

Beyond comprehension Since we have a finite mind, and God is Infinite, all of our thoughts on God are wrong”. (A statement by Br. Cassian said with kindly humor) “And it will always be like that, My poor little girl. The weakness of your nature causes you to fall, and it’s the humble effort...

Distress Before his entrance into Jerusalem on that Palm Sunday, Jesus told how deep his distress was to his followers, for he knew that goodness often feeds the rage of those wounded, his loving heart made him defenseless against such tumult. So he entered, we cheered him, waving palms, he...

A conversation with Dot (I wrote this in 2015, after I met Dot. She was a lovely human being and I can say I loved her right off. She always made my day brighter by just being around her. I am sure she will be missed by many. It is a mixed post. About Dot, and how she got me thinking about...

The woman in a wheelchair We live in a world that is filled with need. Needs of many kinds. People have emotional needs, or financial needs. Some need to be listened to and simply loved and accepted. Some may need to be talked to in a manner that could seem harsh, but is in...

In Sinu Jesu (When Heart Speaks to Heart) Angelico Press In Christianity, the central core is the revelation that ‘The Infinite’, the ‘Wholly Other’; ‘That which cannot be named’; is revealed to us as a deeply personal loving God, In Jesus Christ. Many prefer Deism, an impersonal force who...

I can be very cranky “Advance, advance… Let nothing hinder your trustful steps forward; Trustful---of course---since I am there”. (He and I Pauline Press) I find that my responses towards events in my life can be very cranky. When things slip out of my control, and I am already in a ‘mood’...

The Lady with Purple Hair She stood in the middle of the parking lot, thin, wearing a white sweater, with purple hair, she looked lost, standing there reading from a piece of paper. She was in my way, standing in the middle of the entrance of a row, to the parking lot; because of how she...

You will become both Light, and Fire When you come to adoration, hold yourself before My Eucharistic Face like a mirror before the sun. Thus will you capture the radiance, of my Countenance and the fire that blazes in My Heart; thus will you become both light and fire for souls plunged...

A place of beautiful, wounded, raw humanity I feel at home at the veteran’s hospital in Atlanta, a place for men and women who have seen much, who carry their burdens for all to see, not in shame, but just their lives. Many are old like me, some very young, so much for war and its fruits...

Dealing with the crisis in the Church “In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course.” St. Boniface’s There is no way to try to tone down the...

Hate is the very breath of hell September 12—Holy Hour. “Don’t you think that if you were to spend this entire hour of adoration repeating the words, ‘Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,’ you would not be wasting your time? For My will is all love. It is out of love that you ask Me...

The weight can be heavy, for some too heavy As I was driving one fine Georgia day, the sun was out, a bit chilly, yes, a wonderful day. Coming from the airport, I approached my exit on I-75, a place where I would give money to whoever was there. Most of the time there is no one, but I always...