Faith
The mind of God
Is God a mathematician? Or is God … Love?
Michio Kaku, a renown string theory physicist, leans toward a mathematician. But he knows the universe is too symmetrical, too orderly, too “beautiful” to have just happened without some sort of Intelligent Designer…
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A countercultural assertion by a countercultural saint
Ever wonder why Catholics worship differently than Protestants?
The early Church Fathers were unanimous in their belief that Christ was present in the Eucharist, body, soul, and divinity, which even Martin Luther adamantly affirmed (Luther’s Collected Works, Wittenburg Edition, no. 7 p, 391):
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God is the source of life
Death of a priest
There is one sermon that stood out to me. He simply asked, “Have you ever thanked God for the gift of your life? Tonight, in the quiet of your bedroom, I encourage you to simply get down on your knees and thank God for the gift of your life.”
Read MoreWhat would Jesus do? Catholics are doing it.
You know all the stuff the writer above demands of Christians? Well Catholics are already doing it.
We don’t stand on soap boxes beating our chests and telling the world how great we are. Christ said to help the poor with love, and our reward will come in heaven, not this world.
Because we quietly go about doing humanitarian outreach on every continent of the world, people like the writer above think Christians are a bunch of praying, do-nothing hypocrites. Here’s the thing: we’re not a bunch of big mouth Donald Trumps, we’re just quiet, praying Christians doing a whole bunch of good in the world.
The writer asks, “what would Jesus do?” Catholics are doing it.
Read More“She sees the angels coming for her”
On this early Saturday morning one year ago today, we knew the end was near. I went upstairs to look at Mom a last time. Her breathing was slow. Her eyes had been closed for five days.
Suddenly, they opened.
She didn’t see us. She didn’t see anything in this world.
I asked Karen, my wife, why her eyes opened…
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What defines a person?
Our culture says it is our skin color, our gender, or our sexual orientation.
Others with a little more depth suggest that it is our character.
For my mother-in-law, one could say mother, grandmother, great grandmother, wife, Republican.
These are a start.
I would suggest that for Ann, Holy Eucharist defined her. She lived her life to receive the Lord.
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