I’m not sure if this is from a recent Mass Reading that I forgot to write about on the relevant day (it’s been sitting in draft mode for a while) or just something I picked up in a blog or Bible perusal, but ponder this from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians: 2 Corinthians …
A priest remarked to me recently that one way that one can cope with the difficulties of life and all those times when the world overtly intrudes on one’s prayer and meditation life is to have a “unified life”. Don’t necessarily compartmentalize your prayer life in just morning and evening prayer (or whatever your routine …
At most (if not all) AA meetings the Serenity Prayer is recited. Below is a copy of the full version, usually just the first four lines are read at meetings, as the rest is overtly Christian: The Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change;courage to change the things I …
In the Gospel reading for today’s Mass Jesus talks about priorities: Matthew 6:19-23 Jesus said to his disciples:“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.But store up treasures in heaven,where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.For where your treasure …
In light of my past few blog posts, as well as a few upcoming ones, a nice coincidence that today’s Gospel reading (Thursday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time) has Jesus teaching his disciples how to pray. And He teaches them the Best Prayer Ever: Matthew 6:7-15 In praying, do not babble like the …
On Monday I went for a drive to visit my parent’s graves and just as I was heading down the street I had to stop to avoid this other driver going the opposite way. He had briefly swung into my lane to get around a line of parked cars. I think that I had the …
An excerpt from the Gospel of Thursday in the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time: (yes, I know it’s Tuesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time, but I’ve been busy. This Gospel passage triggered some things to think about, and I had to go about and think of them before writing this post. There will …
The basic idea behind “Sober Catholic” is that you can use the religion and spirituality of Catholic Christianity to preserve and maintain your sobriety. Catholicism may not be your only tool, but should be the primary one. The Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament of the Bible contains many of the Hebrew prophecies concerning …
Admittedly some of the teachings of Catholic Christianity can sound bizarre, if not ridiculous. For example, the Trinity is about 3 Divine Persons in one God, yet not three gods, only One, but they’re all One Being, and yet still Three. You get a headache trying to figure it out. Jesus is one of those …
Today the Church marks the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. (It was celebrated last Thursday in most areas of the world, but in the USA it was moved to this day.) In essence, the Church is specifically honoring the Eucharist, the nature of which I have written about before, here and here. …