It has occurred to me that the only time that I have deemed something to be “unfair” is when it benefited someone else.  I never think of it to be unfair when it benefits me, even when I am aware Read more…

One of the main concerns, of an adult person who has been adopted as an infant and not knowing who their birth parents were, is their family history.  This is important especially as it pertains to any hereditary medical and Read more…

In the gospel reading of, Luke 12:13-21, Luke addresses an activity all too familiar in our culture: chasing after wealth, positions of power and acquisition of material goods. I am not saying that we should not save up for retirement Read more…

So how is your Advent going so far?  Feeling a little guilty (like I am) because the good intentions that you had at the beginning of Advent to try and come to the quiet and to “be still and know Read more…

I recently came across a web page for a Christian Bible study program.  It was sponsored by Indiana Wesleyan University with most of the topics covering the Old Testament.  I was aware that the study was not from a Catholic Read more…

“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?”  So go the words to the title of one of the songs that is customarily sung each year on Good Friday.  It is a day when Catholic Christians come together to venerate Read more…

Paul tells us that “we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access [by faith] to this grace in which we stand, and we boas in hope Read more…

Advent is the season of expectation of the Christ.  Although it has a somewhat penitential tone to it, the focus is on the coming of the Messiah (deliverer), Jesus Christ. From the time of the Babylonian Captivity the Jewish people Read more…

I recently re-read Thomas Nash’s book titled WORTHY IS THE LAMB.  Nash goes into great depth to explain what happens when we celebrate the Eucharist at Mass. Our doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist comes from Read more…