The samaritan woman- St. Fantine When Christ meets her, she’d had 5 husbands and is currently living with a man. In the eastern Catholic Church, she became St. Fantine. Fantine is the mother of Cosette in Les Miserables. Victor Hugo’s tragic story we know because of the splendid-at times celestial- music from the Broadway play […]
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Grief, sorrow, loss- Is There a purpose in them? Deeply aware that I am writing of one of life’s deepest mysteries- the suffering we face from the death of those we love- a suffering from grief, sorrow and loss which none of us escapes, I write this morning anyway. And I am more than aware
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People you’d like to meet in heaven I think a book by this name was published a few years back, or maybe it was a movie. Regardless, I think about that question now and then, and perhaps we all do. When I read something that prompts me to consider this possibility, I get stuck on
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Why this useless murmuring? Why this tumult among nations, among peoples this useless murmuring? They arise, the kings of the earth, princes plot against the Lord and his Anointed. These are the first 4 lines of psalm 2, words I am sure I’ve read before but only today, on this first Sunday of Advent, do
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Cheap grace: sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But even a cursory reading of Diedrich Bonhoeffer reveals it’s itchy truth. Germany: the land of Luther, Wagner, Nietzche, Hitler, Rahner, and Ratzinger. The list combines the very noblest and the most bestial of the minds and hearts of man. And there was also a man called
Our battles are many. Strange title for an article? Perhaps, but fitting to my life both before and after I found faith. Years ago, I walked into a southwestern boutique store not far from where I lived in Houston, Texas, and saw a painting that seemed to dominate the store. The profiles of three Indians
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Thinking about Martha I have been thinking about Martha for years…and the comparison with her sister Mary. My sympathies invariably lie with Martha because I have a very clear image of what she is dealing with. Tradition tells us that Jesus did not travel alone,. Quite the contrary; from what we guess, there were generally
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It only takes one It only takes one. If you write, then you are well aware that once we reach the final proof, the final edit, there comes that sense: it is done. Sure we know that we could continue perfecting the article, the post, the chapter or the book almost ad infinitum but then
Our amazing dog Shadow is the non-Doberman lying down on the living room rug. A “throwaway dog,” as my husband refers to him. Dumped as a puppy, Shadow was left to starve and feed on the dead rabbits killed on the roads. He took the biggest risk of his young life when he chose us
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