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Archive > February 2008
The Blessing of Confession
I know, Catholics don’t call it confession anymore (it’s reconciliation now) but I still think of it in the old terms and forms. There is a wonderful feeling of peace that comes from sitting down with my priest face to face and sharing my troubles and my sins with him. Hearing the words of absolution [...]
Amusement
I just want to make a brief politically incorrect statement about Mormonism and Judaism, and I will say this is in response to comically ignorant statements that I have read tonight on the web. First let me quote a NY Times article from earlier today: The revision of a contentious Good Friday prayer approved this week [...]
Prayer
“All hindrance to prayer arises from ignorance of the teaching of God’s Holy Word on the life of holiness He has planned for all His children, or from an unwillingness to consecrate ourselves fully to Him. When we can truthfully say to our Father, “All that I am and have is thine,” then He can say to [...]
Facing Adversity
Life has offered its share of challenges lately. Everything from family with cancer to a child who isn’t speaking to me at the moment. Co-workers who want to be confrontational to dear friends who are facing the ravages of age and time. At Mass yesterday we read the Beatitudes and I was faced again with [...]