Do you believe that God loves you? Perhaps that’s an odd question to ask a group of people gather for Sunday Mass. But perhaps you have experienced this; it is so easy to experience the love of those closest to you. For example, I have no doubt that my parents love, I have no doubt… Continue reading 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Turn on the evening news, open the newspaper, go to whatever news website you go to and it is pretty much the same news day in and day out. There is some war somewhere, there is crime all over the place, more people being killed. You can begin to ask yourself, when is this going… Continue reading 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
The illness of leprosy, which we hear about so often in the bible, is still around today. We know it as Hansen’s disease, but it was certainly much more prevalent in the time of the scriptures. As a matter of fact, leprosy is mentioned 68 times in the bible (55 times in the Old Testament… Continue reading 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
We all know the parable of the Good Samaritan. I could walk into the 1st grade classroom in our school and they could tell me all about the parable. If I asked you what Jesus was trying to teach in the parable you would probably tell me that He is calling each and every… Continue reading 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
8th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
I often meet people who tell me they want nothing to do with the Catholic Church because people in the Catholic Church are just as lousy as everyone else. They say that like the rest of the world, Catholics are hypocrites, thieves, liars, gossips, cheats, snobs, ect. Sadly, in some cases this is… Continue reading 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
The Battle Plan of the Devil: Knowing the Devil’s Tactics & How to Defend Oneself: A Lenten Reflection
This was a Lenten Reflection Adapted from Spiritual Theology By Jordan Auman O.P. As we walk the path of Calvary through praying the devotion of the Stations of the Cross, I cannot help but stop and remind myself that it was not only the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden that sentenced… Continue reading The Battle Plan of the Devil: Knowing the Devil’s Tactics & How to Defend Oneself: A Lenten Reflection