"While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5 : 8) Today is Good Friday. The Stations of the Cross is an incredibly powerful meditation that can bring out for us those things and areas in our lives which Jesus is desiring that we understand more deeply, even though perhaps we have understood…
The Crisis of Our Present Age
Here is my commentary on this video by Robert Barron. It is a reflection on some of the pertinent issues and points he addresses here. And it is a robust critique of some of his analyses. https://youtu.be/Pw-_mFRNvu4?si=uEpbLu6g8x0lp0Zf Oh-oh! Looks like someone has deleted this video from YouTube! 😆 And so now, I don't know exactly…
The Bedrock of Experience
While faith can inform the bedrock of our experience, experience in and of itself does not always coincide with or reflect the Truth which faith so ardently professes or upholds. There are, I must say, those experiences which are by and large bitter & futile and therefore present themselves as none other than formidable obstructions…
The Year of the Giant Seahorse
As we come to the end of the Lunar New Year festival, a festival which each year, officially ushers in the new annual cycle of life as it is lived within the sphere of Oriental culture and tradition, it never ceases to amaze me upon reflecting throughout this two-week long adventure, how correlative and superlatively…
Behind the Swinging Door
And so 2024 has swung open for us all........what with January nearly behind us and another long year of unexpected twists and turns outstretched before us.....I have spent my New Year's month of unfolding recovering from quite a difficult bout of gastroenteritis and I kind of think I am most likely more prone to picking…
“The Time of the End is the Time of No Room” Redux
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/25/israel-intensifies-occupied-west-bank-raids-on-christmas-day?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user%2FAlJazeera This post was originally written on the 28th December 2023 for The Commemoration of the Holy Innocents When you see something like:'Israel hits Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank' you then know it's finally time to write "The Time of the End is the Time of No Room" Redux ! There is…
Christmas 2023
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)
O Rex Gentium ~ O King of the Nations
"FOR EVERY BOOT OF THE TRAMPLING WARRIOR IN BATTLE TUMULT AND EVERY GARMENT ROLLED IN BLOOD SHALL BE BURNED AS FUEL FOR THE FIRE. HE SHALL JUDGE BETWEEN THE NATIONS AND SHALL DECIDE FOR MANY PEOPLES; AND THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES AND THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNING HOOKS; NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP…
The Problem of the Poor
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-12/pope-concert-with-the-poor-shows-meaning-of-christian-message.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsletterVN-EN The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the LORD and a day of…
Reflections from the Second Sunday of Advent
2nd Reading from 2Peter 3 : 8-14 "Do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard “delay,” but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish…
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