Jesus took his disciples up the mountain and gathered them around. He taught them saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Blessed are the…
MARY LOOKED UPWARD Mary looked back and saw a surprise, A life unexpected, before her eyes. The angel came with news divine, That she’d bear a Savior, by God’s design. Mary looked inward…
You won’t find John the Baptist at any manger scenes or on a Hallmark card, not even Advent cards. He wears a dusty camel’s hair coat, lives on locust and…
James I. McCord, the former president emeritus of Princeton University Theological School, once told the story of a man who commented that he was never coming back to a particular…
The problem with our society is that we don’t understand the power nor the dynamics of giving a blessing. We underestimate its power and we are not in the habit…
THE ADVENT WREATH During Advent, candles are lit as a sign of hope, Not just a ritual of piety but a way to cope. It’s a political act and a subversive stance, A…
A rabbi was asked, “Which act of charity is higher–giving out of obligation or giving from the heart?” All in the class were inclined to respond that giving from the heart…
Several years ago, a radio station ran a contest. Disc jockeys invited their listeners to tune in their clock radios. “Just for fun,” they said, “when you wake up to the sound of…
A True Servant! Robert Fulghum, who wrote “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” said that he placed alongside the mirror in his bathroom a picture of a woman…
One day a family called their parish priest to come over because their elderly grandfather was very sick and dying. The priest came and sat down in the dying man’s…
