Today’s readings bring to mind something I have been meditating on a lot lately. The concept of Holiness. We all have so many varied definitions of Holiness, from being set apart, to being like God, to even the notion that being Holy means being free from sin. Recently though someone broughtContinue Reading
There is this notion going around (and has been for many hundreds of years). The church has been combating it from a very early time. The Gnostics have long held (since the 1st and 2nd centuries) that all of creation was evil. That notion is that the material world, thatContinue Reading
It’s been an interesting few days. We’ve seen the supreme court decide for the entire nation an issue of morality. Forcing states (regardless of voters opinion in those states) to accept something they may or may not approve of. For many that’s a hard thing to swallow. Tempers are high.Continue Reading
As I was walking back from the bus stop this morning, instead of praying the office of readings I decided I would do the Rosary. This mornings mysteries were the Sorrowful Mysteries. I began to walk along watching the squirrels running around preparing for winter, watching the parents running toContinue Reading
To be a sacramental person is so far beyond anything that I think we can convey in words. It is to be Christ himself present to the world, as his hands, eyes, feet and mouth. As a convert, the very nature of our faith is so much beyond whatContinue Reading
My wife and I were having a wonderfully deep conversation as I drove her in to work this morning about the concepts of gluttony and sin, and how they could apply to diet cost and expenditure. We then began to talk about the general judgement, what it might be likeContinue Reading
As I was doing my morning walk after getting my daughter on the bus, I began to listen to the office of readings. My mind began to wander as the Psalms were being read to me, and I began to meditate sincerely on this set of verses: O Lord, youContinue Reading