Giving (as Healing and Life-Giving)
“From this standpoint, the needs of others are tests of our relationship to the passions that threaten to control our inner life. Whether...
Ideas
“In the contemporary world, secularism, neo-paganism, along with eastern spiritualities, abound in the market-place of ideas, confusing...
Faith as Relationship
“In theory, our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our...
Process
“…“what does it mean to process something?” To process something means to have gained understanding and acceptance about any particular...
Troubles and Trials
“… when we deal with suffering it can be difficult to understand and convey why things are happening. St. Paul writes of suffering (and...
Faith and Choice
“As we tend to center our world (and ourselves) in the question of our choices, we are constantly tempted to justify those we feel were...
Unwittingly
“ From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief...
Desert/Wilderness
“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights He was hungry....
Teaching
“The idea that one might teach anyone about the Lord seems absurd if we look at the task soberly. However, the teaching of the faith...
Vulnerability
“Vulnerability is something we instinctively reject because we are taught from kindergarten on that we must protect ourselves, control...