Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean. Mt. 8:2 In the passage above, from the Gospel of Matthew we see record of an encounter between a leper and Jesus. The leper sees in his disease a deeper truth – that in some way it is tied to the history of sin in […]
I think heaven is above a ceiling like a dome in the sky but for the soul. The will is the engine and the soul is the vehicle. It is not the will that allows passage but grace. Still, to be just below the ceiling means you have passed the demons of gluttony and lust.
The LORD God called to the man and asked him: Where are you? He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid” (Gen. 3:19). In many ways I can best describe my ongoing conversion from darkness, shame and doubt, to light, dignity, and faith as
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Elsewhere on this blog I published an article about violent anger. To follow up that theme I wanted to include a passage from the 2014 address of Pope Francis to the members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. He mentions the contemporary conception of human rights particularly insofar as it has a tendency to
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When I was young (mid teens to early twenties) I was a rageaholic. Actually, I was addicted to substances and behaviors that only produced misery. The rage was a defense mechanism for my misery and was justified by finding things to blame other people for. I was a victim, especially of people who seemed to
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Some of my readers know I am a student of philosophy, both Western and Indian. In philosophy we see what reason is able to obtain through observation and rational reflection upon what we observe and experience. We don’t, apart from faith, find the Eternal Wisdom that saves, but we do come to discover universal knowledge as
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You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder. James 2:19 Recently the Holy Father, Pope Francis, in a general audience wrote, “you may know the whole Bible, you may know all the liturgical rubrics, you may know all theology, but from this knowledge love is not automatic: loving has
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