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Rich Man, Poor Man
Friends, I have spent the past 12 days in Rome for “baby Bishop school”, and just returned today. As such, I asked my Word on Fire team to reach into…
9 years, 9 months ago
A Warning Bell in the Night
Most of us spur into action when we believe that our financial state is in dire straits. Why don't we act in the same way in regards to our spiritual…
9 years, 9 months ago
The Awful Gospel of the Cross
This week's Gospel contains one of the greatest challenges Jesus ever offered to his disciples: "If anyone comes to me without hating his father and …
9 years, 10 months ago
Humility, Queen of the Virtues
This week's readings focus on the importance of humility. Humility is the foundation for the whole of spirituality. In order to truly pursue truth an…
9 years, 10 months ago
The Narrow Gate
To gain eternal life is to participate to the fullest degree possible in the very life of God. It is to walk the path of love, surrendering to grace …
9 years, 10 months ago
Faith and the Reasoning of the Religious Mind
God cannot be analyzed scientifically the way one would study the things of the world, but God can be approached through religious reasoning, or Fait…
9 years, 11 months ago
Bubbles, Everything is Bubbles
The readings for this weekend have a tremendous cohesiveness. They all speak to a truth about our world that is hard to take in, that has to be repea…
9 years, 11 months ago
Abba Father, Bring us Jesus
The Our Father, the Lord’s Prayer, is a request for Christ. As we examine this most famous prayer line by line, we see it's all about Jesus. That He …
9 years, 11 months ago
Martha, Mary, and the Attitude of Discipleship
Episode 13
Although the little story of Martha and Mary has been interpreted throughout the centuries as a parable dealing with the “active” and “contemplative”…
9 years, 11 months ago
Hearing the Voice of God
Episode 12
During the twentieth century, moral relativism was in vogue in elite cultural circles, but now it is the dominant moral outlook of the broader cultur…
10 years ago