Tag: Priest/Religious

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Letter to Lapsed Catholics.

Typical of what’s outside most large cities in America, fifty miles from Pittsburgh 1,700 people live in the...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for March 9, 2011 – Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday Reading 1 Jl 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Soulometer

Souls are judged on how much they loved, or didn’t love, God and neighbors. We may visualize that...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for January 30, 2011

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Zep 2:3; 3:12-13 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Once, The Church had Reasons to be Pro-Union

Many large urban dioceses used to have a reasonably intellectual, progressive priest known as “The Labor Priest”. In...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for January 2, 2011

Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Reading 1 Is 60:1-6 Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Fundamentalism + Catholicism = Catholic…

Many believe that Fundamentalism is, in a word, “weird”. It’s almost impossible for the worldly to keep from...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Today’s Reading Let’s Us Know If…

1 Jn 2:3-11 Beloved: The way we may be sure that we know Jesus is to keep his...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Two in a Row

Today, like yesterday, is a Holy Day of Obligation. It’s not often that there are two consecutive Holy...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

We Choose to be Sheep or Goats.

Scripture tells us that we human programs are either sheep or goats. It’s a brilliant analogy. Both animals...