There is a saying that I hear often: “don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.” In our society today we seem to do just that. Politically we reduce a person to a meme and that alone discredits everything they are saying or doing. No one seems to lookContinue Reading
In today’s first reading we see the familiar story of Cain and Abel. Two young men who both offer up a sacrifice to God, one which God finds pleasing, and another which we did not. It wasn’t that Cain offered something bad, he offered from what he was in chargeContinue Reading
In the second reading for today, St. Paul reminds us that if Jesus is not raised from the dead, then we are the “most pitiable of all people.” He is right. If Jesus is not raised from the dead? Then we also have no hope in our faith. However, ifContinue Reading
Earlier today I did what I try to do every Saturday, I set out in a car looking for a confessional. I don’t do it because I’m holy. I do it because I realize I am not. I stumble often, so often that I am reminded by my conscienceContinue Reading
What does it mean to do the will of God? Does it mean that we no longer have to worry about “sacrifices?” The first reading for today talks about how that God no longer wants their burnt offerings or their sacrifices. Does that mean He doesn’t want our tithe?Continue Reading
Today is the Feast Day in which the Church encourages us as Catholics to remember Saint Thomas Aquinas, perhaps one of the most intellectual men to ever be born. In his work, the Summa Theologica, we find the definitive guide to Catholic apologetics in which we see a reasonable andContinue Reading
What is it like to be poor? To have nothing to give? I’m not a stranger to food. You can tell by looking at me that I haven’t missed many meals. My mom jokes about how when I was little I was “always hungry.” So much so that when weContinue Reading