People attending our Mass think a lot of things about the different postures we take.  Things like “Oh, up we go again.”  And “Why are we kneeling?”  Which is why this series focuses on the “why” of sitting, standing, and kneeling during a Mass.  Sitting:  In the bible, sitting is a posture of listening.  We  Read more …

Don’t Worship Your Emotions How can there be an all-loving and an all-powerful God if there is so much suffering and evil in our world?  Perhaps that is the most difficult religious question of all time.  Why does God not act in the face of suffering?  Why do bad things happen with seemingly no response  Read more …

The reason Lent lasts 40 days is that 40 is the traditional number of judgment and spiritual testing in the Bible (Gn 7:4, Ex 24:18, 34:28, Nm 13:25, 14:33, Jon 3:4).  Lent bears particular relationship to the 40 days Christ spent fasting in the desert before entering into his public ministry (Mt 4:1-11).  We imitate  Read more …

Journey into the Wilderness We can think of Lent as both a sojourn and a journey. We have two opportunities to identify with Jesus, one at the start of his public ministry and one near the end. The sojourn occurs in the desert as Jesus spends forty days alone in self-reflection and discernment of God’s  Read more …

The Internal Battle for Our Souls Two contraries cannot co-exist inside the same subject. Aristotle wrote that and it seems to say the obvious, something can’t be light and dark at the same time.  However, in terms of what’s happening inside our souls it seems that contraries can indeed co-exist inside the same subject. At  Read more …

Do you have a cross on you, at home, in your office or your car? Why? The cross is one of the earliest and most widely used Christian symbols.  In the broadest sense, a cross symbolizes the religion of Christianity.  More specifically, it represents and memorializes Christ’s death.  The Cross means many things to many  Read more …