Is Jesus just harping on money again? Is he just giving us more rules? Or is he leading us to a fuller life? Rescuing us from a life that cannot promise us anything that lasts?
Category: Ordinary Time (C)
Exercising Desire
In our desire for the One that will truly satisfy, Augustine emphasizes exercise. There is a need for persistence and consistency in prayer. It is through prayer that this desire is exercised.
Losing Touch With the One Necessary Thing
There are so many things that demand our time and attention each and every day. And often we are left in the daze of their incessant demand, in an anxious concern about what the next day will bring. And this leads to forgetting the one thing necessary, the one thing our life, our heart needs.
Desiring First To Be With the Good
Is the point of being a Christian just to be a “good person”?
A Scandalous Plan to Save the World
There is a temptation to focus my energy on broad scale social issues. But perhaps God’s method is much more particular and scandalous than that.
Forgiveness: The New Natural Reaction
Probably one of the most unnatural things we are asked to do? Show mercy and forgive.
EUCHARIST: 40 for 40
Nothing has been as life-changing in my life as the hours I have committed to Eucharistic Adoration.
EUCHARIST: Partaking of the Divine Coal
A Eucharistic renewal calls for a renewed look at what we are doing at the Mass.
Faith: Adherence to a Person, not Just Ideas
Ever feel like you have all the pieces, but something still seems to be missing? Been a Catholic your whole life but something is still off?
Trust Leads to Rest
If we look closely, we can see all the many ways we do not entrust our lives to Jesus. And if we look a little more closely, how those ways have left us weary and unfulfilled. “Rest”: this is what God’s Anointed brings, what we find by entrusting our lives to Him.
The Beggar 