Glory be to Jesus Christ! Do you enjoy playing golf? I’m not too good at it myself, but I really enjoy heading out on a warm summer day and embarrassing myself for an afternoon. Some of the courses that golfers take on can be quite challenging where you are not sure where it is that […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! There is a powerful passage from The Lord of the Rings where Frodo, who has been tasked with the mission of delivering the evil Ring to a council, tries to give it to Gandalf. This wise and powerful wizard refuses it however, because he knows its power and his own […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! Imagine if you had an emergency and you called 911 to get an ambulance to come and get you right away. The operator comes on the phone and asks what you need and you stammer out that you need an ambulance, and she replies with “OK, we’ll get around to […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! I remember when I was in High School and my youth leader at the time invited me to come to the Marian Centre, a field-house of the Madonna House Apostolate. The Marian Centre is a soup kitchen in the inner city of Edmonton which serves hundreds of homeless men and […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! How inconvenient does your faith make your life? Every once in a while I’ll turn on the “Christian Music Radio Station” on in the car, but I can only listen for a few minutes. I always feel that they have turned Christ into some sort of “coping mechanism” and it’s […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! Do you have a coin collection? My son has a collection of coins from around the world, and also a special collection of coins which were minted in the year he was born. Coins are some of the most interesting artifacts from our current culture and from ancient cultures. The […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! Are you into family histories? It is always interesting seeing family trees, and learning more about our ancestors. What sort of person was my great grandfather? What was life like for my great great aunt? How did she live a “normal day”? These family histories are not simply disjointed recordings […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! I was watching a debate recently on a very important issue currently before the government legislative bodies and the word “post-truth” was used to describe someone’s position. In many ways, our culture embodies a “post-truth” stance, either through relativism or fear. The temple leaders in our reading today show their […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! This year, the day after celebrating Mary’s entrance into the temple as a small child, we recall the Lord’s purification of that temple when He drives out the money changers and merchants. Unknown to the people, the Lord visited His temple, and found that the worship of His people in […]
Glory be to Jesus Christ! In our reading today, the disciples are excited to enter Jerusalem and take the Kingdom! Our Lord tells them that the Kingdom and the possession of it will be quite different than they imagine it through the telling of a parable. How frequently do we sell ourselves short, or suffer […]
