Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God.” Explaining this beatitude a little more in detail, St. Gregory of Nyssa says: “The man who sees God possesses in this act...
Homily Twenty-seventh Sunday Year B Reading 1: What we heard in the first reading were some important truths of revelation. 1. God created man and woman. God created us in his own...
Thought of the Day September 29, 2021 Return to me, and I will return to you
By spiritaflame 10:25 AM“I have been meditating on the story of the prodigal son. It is a story about returning. I realize the importance of returning over and over again. My life drifts away from God....
Twenty-seventh Sunday Ordinary Gospel Reflections BThe Pharisees approached and asked Jesus, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?" They were testing him. · They were testing him to show that he...
None of us like to be rejected or experience verbal abuse. How do we react to rejection and verbal abuse? Most of us try to retaliate either in kind or in a way...
Cardinal Ratzinger said in an interview, referring to the dark night of faith St. Therese endured in the last months of her life: "When you sense God is absent, it is not that...
"The identity card of a Christian should be the same in all respects as that of Jesus. And the Cross is what we have in common and what saves us. Because if each...
Homily Twenty-six Sunday Year B Reading 1: The invitation and the source of the action is the Lord. It is God who pours forth his Spirit upon others. God’s Spirit as with...
Because of the recent hurricane Ida which devastated our area of the country, I have been without internet for the past three weeks. Thus, I was unable to send Thoughts of the Day...
As God is unconditionally compassionate to us, we are called to be compassionate to others. In his compassion God shows us mercy not judgement, understanding, not rejection. Many times what blocks us from...
When St Paul struggled with his proverbial thorn he wrote: "Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, but he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for...
We have witnessed and maybe experience one natural tragedy and human-caused tragedy after the other. It is easy for us to question "Why"? But that begs the real question. We expect God to...
