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2022-10-01T23:26:49-04:00

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God as Celebrity

Last updated on: October 1, 2022 at 11:26 pm By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

We, as humans are often impressed when encountering famous people in our world and accompanying paparazzi, but we should always be impressed with the presence God, the ultimate celebrity, who chooses to grace our presence in a sometimes quiet way. Nonetheless, I have some interesting tales from Columbus, my fine Midwest city, to share. One would not expect to inadvertently run into famous television and movie celebrities while simply jaunting about my town. For me, it was a pleasant series... Read more

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Congressmen, Cartoons, the Sublime and the Divine.

Last updated on: October 2, 2022 at 2:09 pm By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

As a student of the body-politik, I have recently been re-examining the seemingly absurd notion of having comedians and cartoon characters fulfilling the roles of our current politicians and statesman. After careful consideration- the notion may not be so absurd at all. The idea streaked to me like a comet in the sky. God, as we know, calls the shots, even in the sometimes sketchy realm of social politics. And it was Almighty God that made us in his... Read more

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2022-10-01T22:56:33-04:00

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The Pope and Happy Hour

Last updated on: October 1, 2022 at 10:56 pm By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

Brushes with greatness are sometimes born of mundane circumstances. On an autumn afternoon in 1979, life was feeling particularly mundane in Athens. Four of us, all students at Ohio University from various Christian backgrounds, had lazily skipped Friday afternoon classes in favor of “happy hour” at a nearby watering hole. While checking a newspaper for evening movie times, someone joked about the impending visit of the new pope, John Paul II — who planned to say Mass the next day... Read more

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Church and the Playboy Bunny

Last updated on: October 1, 2022 at 11:18 pm By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

In the 1980s, I lived in an unusual off-campus rooming house near 17th Avenue, not far from Ohio State University. The quaint, lovely place was full of fine furnishings, antiques, even a grand piano. The landlady was a bon vivant with an eccentric streak that one might expect from a person willing to take such a risk with students who were sometimes crass and unruly. She’d named the place LaMoreaux House, after one of her husbands, and it was affordable... Read more

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Actor Shia Labeouf, Padre Pio and My Grandmother

Last updated on: October 1, 2022 at 10:59 pm By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

Actor Shia LaBeouf is about to release a major movie. It’s about one of the most iconic saints and public figures of the modern age.. Padre Pio, a priest who lead a pious and sometimes contentious life, and bore the “stigmata”, the phenomena of the bleeding wounds of Christ. But this spiritual icon is closer to my family then I could have ever envisioned. One afternoon in early 1992, sitting at her table in Ohio, my 82 year-old Italian born grandmother,... Read more

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Cristos in the Cosmos- Communion in Outer Space

Last updated on: October 1, 2022 at 11:54 pm By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

As people and especially as Christians, we realize that God is multi-dimensional. We realize that he is in all places and in all always. After all, ‘in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth’. Spinning galaxies and light years serve as no obstacles, for time and place are subject to His command, and his presence and transcends time and space. Many of the early astronauts who ventured into space the past 40 years actually took the ‘Eucharist’ aboard... Read more

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The Color of God’s Eyes

Last updated on: October 1, 2022 at 11:10 pm By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

When my mother was dying years ago, I made it a point to try to make her experience one which involved thinking about pleasant things in her life. I had learned some cognitive exercises from a psychologist friend of mine, who had used them with her own her mother who was was dying about a decade before. As my friend did, I made my mother write in a ‘memory book’. It was a simple diary I had bought to chronicle some of the good memories... Read more

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God Is Closer Than Our Very Breaths…

Last updated on: October 2, 2022 at 12:19 am By MichaelAngelo Massa J.D.

When I was a very young boy, my Italian -born mother told me something that has always baffled and intrigued me to this very day. As many other families, we had a cat. A beautiful animal marked by various colors, and my constant companion as I played away the days. I had had asked my mother why our cat purred so often throughout the day. Without skipping a beat, my mother informed me that my cat was murmuring its prayers... Read more

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