Communion, consolation and church The church was packed. St. Patrick’s Church in Arroyo Grande had a Mass of Remembrance –Communion and Consolation-at six last evening for All Souls Day. I expected there to be very few people there, after all, it was time for Sunday night football but there was almost no room by the […]
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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
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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