A Reflection on the readings for Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time (June 21, 2016)2Kings 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36Psalm 48Holy Gospel According to Matthew 7:6, 12-14 When I was fourteen years old my grandfather gave me my first bible. Not that we didn’t already have bibles in ourContinue Reading
Today is the memorial of Saint Justin the Martyr. A man who lived in the early church, back in the time when the Roman’s were having Christians fight to death in the Colosseum. A time of persecution and hate. Justin after his conversion began to argue for the Christian faith.Continue Reading
In the early nineties I did a science fair project that got a bit of recognition at the local and state level. It wasn’t that great a project when I think back on it. I wrote some software for a computer that generated images based on Fractal Geometry and IteratedContinue Reading
Several years ago I sat in a bible study with a woman who I had never met. There was some small talk but for the most part she kept to herself. She seemed very shy, very timid, but at the same time you could instantly tell that she was searchingContinue Reading
For tomorrow’s daily mass the readings continue to examine the Epistle of Saint James. He continues to encourage us to work for God’s kingdom and to avoid things of the world, things of the ego and of the flesh. He uses some pretty strong words, indeed. He compares worldlyContinue Reading
In tomorrow’s readings we see Paul trying to follow the will of God. He has recruited Timothy, a man who is both Jew and Greek to accompany him. The message of the Gospel would be that much easier to spread to a new culture when you have “one of theirContinue Reading
As a man who is discerning a call to diaconate tomorrow’s first reading really speaks to me about that call. The most amazing part to me is how skillfully Luke has worded the death of the first Christian Martyr, Saint Stephen, to show how it mirrored the very death ofContinue Reading