Washing and “Is it enough?”
While Catholics have firm reason to hope in our salvation, we always walk the line between presumption and despair. (1 Pt 3:15-16) Frankly, as with COVID, we do not know how our lives will turn out.
Truth Scoop
One Job!
Whether your yard is marked with a sign for Biden or your car is marked with a sticker for Trump, your soul is indelibly marked for Jesus Christ.
On Relics
Every Catholic altar is a kind of graveyard. Catholics pray surrounded by the remains of saints who have died before us. You could say it’s a bit creepy.
Closer Than You Think
I married a fireman, so these things have taken on a particular magnitude when I think especially about the “fire families” that lost their loved ones from “just another day at work”.
The Cross of “No”
We’ve been kicked out and denied access to many services over the years – daycares, music programs, counselors, you name it.
Birth Control and Freedom
Patronized by figures like Sanger, the social movement toward contraception promised a certain freedom and human flourishing, but the Church anticipated otherwise and produced a different kind of patron saint.
St. Thomas Aquinas on Freedom, Free Will, and Willing
I can never spell “choose” and “chose” correctly. It’s one of my many weaknesses. It’s not that I’m lost in time, I just can’t spell. But it’s also ironic that I have a hard time spelling words for choice. I also have a hard time with the difference between “willing” and “free will,” between wanting … Read more
Freedom for Fullness
I encourage you too, to go into the tomb of Lazarus and see what is binding you to this world.
On Freedom
I have hope that, one day, the mention of freedom in this country will no longer be a reminder of a unjust system, our flag will no longer be a symbol of a broken struggle for equality, but something we will all be able to celebrate with joy and pride as we look back on the hard work and progress we made when we came together.
Undone
Like the best of mothers, the Blessed Mother wants our knots undone. Her Immaculate Heart wants what is best for our hearts.