Who can number these?

Who can number these? . . . Who can explore these?  Modern-day scientists can answer many of Sirach’s “unanswerable questions.”   Sands of the seashore?    Take the amount of grains of sand in a teaspoon and multiply it by the volume of all the beaches and deserts on...

Stop condemning and you will not be condemned

Stop condemning and you will not be condemned Jesus couldn’t have been more clear.   If you want to avoid condemnation, don’t condemn other people. Let’s say you see a rumpled, grizzled person sleeping on a park bench.   You wonder how he got there.   You wonder why...

Faith is the realization of what is hoped for

Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen We all have things we hope for, both things that we don’t see yet and things that aren’t yet the way God intends them to be:   relationships that need reconciliation, health or financial...

You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church

You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.  The best nicknames capture something essential about a person.   United States President Abraham Lincoln, for instance, was called “Honest Abe” for his great concern for the truth.   One story has it that as a...

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