Why is it that parents insist on sending their children to catechism, but don't make them go to mass?
Why do some insist on getting their forehead marked on Ash Wednesday, but don't go to mass the following Sunday?
It seems that so many are afraid to take chances with the outward signs, but fail to make the inward journey. Our world is most importantly that part of us that is within us. Before we can seek to know what is in the world, we must seek to know what is in us.
Parents,
Do not be afraid of what will happen to your child if they do not attend religious education, but, be very much concerned about what will happen to your child if they do not attend mass. Praying in mass, before the Holy Eucharist, should be the highlight of your family's week. If you spend that time with them on Sunday mornings, you won't need to worry about catechism. Don't make them go, SHOW them how to go.
4/26/2005
4/10/2005
The View
I have the fortune of having my computer set up next to a rear window in my home. As I sit here, before the pixels, patterns, and atoms dancing in front of my eyes, I can glance to my right and watch the squirrels and mocking birds eating sunflower seeds. It's a peaceful thing to watch as the sun rises above the tree-line to the east and all the world wakes up.
The squirrels and the birds in my back yard have more to eat this morning than many on some Caribbean islands. Doesn't that sound strange. Islands in the Caribbean, those tropical paradises we go to in our margaritta tinted dreams. Tourist filled playgrounds where a pina colada has more sustenance than a next door child's daily meals. Where we sit on peaceful beaches and watch the sun rise out of the ocean, there sits a small child, hoping, wishing, and praying, that the world WILL wake up.
Click on Food For The Poor to find out and do more.
The squirrels and the birds in my back yard have more to eat this morning than many on some Caribbean islands. Doesn't that sound strange. Islands in the Caribbean, those tropical paradises we go to in our margaritta tinted dreams. Tourist filled playgrounds where a pina colada has more sustenance than a next door child's daily meals. Where we sit on peaceful beaches and watch the sun rise out of the ocean, there sits a small child, hoping, wishing, and praying, that the world WILL wake up.
Click on Food For The Poor to find out and do more.
4/08/2005
A Mission
Sunday, I listened as a Missionary spoke of the poor and hungry in the Carribean.
Imagine waking up with no food in your home. Imagine waking up with no home. Imagine waking up with no clean water to drink. Imagine mixing dirt with grass to make a patty to eat.
Imagine...
I spent more on ink pens last year than most of those people earn in a year. I leave more on my plate at dinner than they have to eat all day. I have spent enough on my children's tennis shoes to feed several families for a year.
Imagine waking up with no food in your home. Imagine waking up with no home. Imagine waking up with no clean water to drink. Imagine mixing dirt with grass to make a patty to eat.
Imagine...
I spent more on ink pens last year than most of those people earn in a year. I leave more on my plate at dinner than they have to eat all day. I have spent enough on my children's tennis shoes to feed several families for a year.
4/05/2005
The Passing of a Pope
John Paul II. For many, nothing else needs be said. For some, not enough can be said. For me, I am almost without words because I know nothing can really express how I feel.
On all the things I've heard on the media, I have lots to say. First, it always amazes me how unfamiliar so many people are with the topics they try to cover for the media. I don't mean just on religion or especially Catholocism, but in general, so many newspeople or walking blank sheets of paper with no real knowledge or background on the subjects they try to cover. When meida people talk about John Paul II being a "Traditionalist" or a "conservative", what do they think the leader of the Roman Catholic Church is suppose to be?
When they say John Paul was steadfast on moral issues such as stem-cell research, capital punishment, sex and marriage, what do they think "religion" really is?
I know in these modern times, especially in the US where we basically have too much time, too much food, and too much "free will", people tend to dream about some Valhala where everyone has everything they desire. But, what about those places where what one desires is just to survive another day, to have clean water to drink, to have a bowl of rice to eat, or a drop of cornmeal to taste? Jesus didn't come to comfort the comfortable, He came to comfort the sick, the poor, the hungry, the grieving. Remember, He came to make the comfortable uncomfortable, and to comfort the uncomfortable. The one wearing the shoes of Peter can do no less. We should expect and pray for no less.
Traditionalist. Conservative. God, I hope so!
Rest in Peace John Paul. You are finally home.
God Bless the College as they prepare to elect our new shepherd.
On all the things I've heard on the media, I have lots to say. First, it always amazes me how unfamiliar so many people are with the topics they try to cover for the media. I don't mean just on religion or especially Catholocism, but in general, so many newspeople or walking blank sheets of paper with no real knowledge or background on the subjects they try to cover. When meida people talk about John Paul II being a "Traditionalist" or a "conservative", what do they think the leader of the Roman Catholic Church is suppose to be?
When they say John Paul was steadfast on moral issues such as stem-cell research, capital punishment, sex and marriage, what do they think "religion" really is?
I know in these modern times, especially in the US where we basically have too much time, too much food, and too much "free will", people tend to dream about some Valhala where everyone has everything they desire. But, what about those places where what one desires is just to survive another day, to have clean water to drink, to have a bowl of rice to eat, or a drop of cornmeal to taste? Jesus didn't come to comfort the comfortable, He came to comfort the sick, the poor, the hungry, the grieving. Remember, He came to make the comfortable uncomfortable, and to comfort the uncomfortable. The one wearing the shoes of Peter can do no less. We should expect and pray for no less.
Traditionalist. Conservative. God, I hope so!
Rest in Peace John Paul. You are finally home.
God Bless the College as they prepare to elect our new shepherd.
4/02/2005
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