We often act out of ignorance. Armed with the best of intentions, we think we are seeing clearly and correctly, but we are not. We don’t always understand the full meaning of things and only perceive part of the truth. Hence, our judgments and actions can be impaired by myopic, incomplete or erroneous perceptions. The […]
Sunday Columns
Breathe In God’s Mercy
What a wonderful joy fills us today as we ponder the inexhaustible mercy of God. “Mercy is the heart of God,” Pope Francis tells us. The image of a heart has been used to point to the very life source of a person as it is the organ that allows life to flow through our […]
Open Wide Your Heart!
By Fr. Dan Merz Christos anesti! Alithos anesti! Christ is risen! He is truly risen! Those words have gone to the ends of the earth. And they still resound today with hope and joy for those who have received the gift of faith. The empty tomb is our gift of faith. Open wide your heart […]
Hope for the Future – Our Sister Parish in Pandemic Times
El Salvador began a lock down of all but a limited number of those deemed essential workers on March 21, 2020. It was one of the world’s strictest with the military empowered to stop citizens and detain/quarantine them. The upside is that El Salvador’s low median age and strict lock down have kept death rates […]
Trusting the Master Builder – Our Sister Parish in Pandemic Times
By Angelle Hall “It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.”* On March 1, 2020, I shared updates and information in the bulletin on our Sister Parish as we prepared to support them in our Lenten […]
Faith: The Jewels of Truth
Preserving and enhancing love centered relationships is at the heart of the Ten Commandments (and the Beatitudes) and the reason for Jesus’ display of anger in the temple. We have lost our axis to the world of “anything goes” and no longer see the Ten Commandments as practical and wise guideposts to effective living. We […]