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November 2011

November 18, 2011

Advent & Straw

All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have...

November 11, 2011

Stock Up on Toilet Paper, Armageddon is Coming

A couple years ago, when I lived in Oakland, my brother came to visit. As...

October 2011

October 22, 2011

Cover Me in Manure

In today's Gospel Jesus tells a parable about the owner of a vineyard...

October 14, 2011

Tear Down Your Paneled House

Is it time for you to dwell in your own paneled houses while this house...

October 07, 2011

God is the Surf Bum of My Soul

Light breaking through the clouds over the Sea of GalileeThe waters of my soulare delicately...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Love Your Body

Many people associate Christianity with Puritanism. If you are Christian then nudity and sex must...

September 22, 2011

Letter to a Perfectionist

God is perfect, lacking nothing. That is, God is distinguished from other beings on account...

September 12, 2011

We Will Never Find the Body

Sign directing pilgrims to the Church A priest I know recently told a story during one...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

Happiness Doubled by Wonder

Dipping my toes in the Jordan RiverGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder ...

August 13, 2011

Forgetting Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Cross - The four crosses represent spreading the Gospel to the four corners of...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

God Beyond All Knowing

Mount Moriah as it is today The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

Wrestling with My Inner Judas

Painting of the risen Jesus in the Cave of GethsemaneOh Jesus, watch over me always,...

June 17, 2011

153 Fish in the Sea

The Miraculous Catch of 153 Fish - Duccio, 14th centurySimon Peter went over and dragged...

June 13, 2011

Whose Dust Are You Covered In?

As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who...

June 07, 2011

Spiritual Epicenter – Arriving in the Holy Land

View of Jersualm from Mt. ScopesI never really considered going to the Holy Land. It...

April 2011

April 25, 2011

Falling Stars of Joy

All joy...emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings....

April 24, 2011

Triduum Meditation

They gave him wine to drink mixed with gall, which he tasted but refused to...

April 17, 2011

Save Me from Mediocrity

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep...

April 08, 2011

Tis the Season

Lent is a great time to take advantage of the gift we have in the...

April 05, 2011

Clean the Temple of Your Heart

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear...

March 2011

March 24, 2011

The Vertical Life

Remember that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return. - Genesis 3:19When I...

March 18, 2011

Saying Goodbye to Mimi

Death, the greatest evil that humans can ever experience came to my grandmother Nancy last...

March 12, 2011

Following the Trinity

Now this is the Catholic faith: We worship one God in the Trinity and the...

March 07, 2011

Lent is coming, are you ready?

Our Lenten readings begin with the temptation of Jesus in the desert. In the video...

March 02, 2011

Being Catholic

Many people seeing the strange outward trappings of the Catholic Church, learn superficially of some...

February 2011

February 16, 2011

Journey of Faith

God designed us so we are naturally inclined to search for Him. God constantly draws...

February 13, 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day

Love is the effective willing of the good of the other:May you love effectively this...

February 10, 2011

Follow Your Heart

God is a spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those...

February 02, 2011

A Letter from John

Dear Theresa, At the end of my Gospel I say, “There are also many other...

January 2011

January 15, 2011

Unfurl My Love

The love of ChristWaits in my heart.It is ready to be unfurled.But my prideIs like...