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Commentary on Wilderness Experience

My reflection on the Wilderness Experience brings some insight to the three attributes of emptiness, loneliness, and dryness. However, after reading over that section I feel that a more detailed explanation covering those terms is needed to give the reader a better description as to what I meant an... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Explosion of Love Unlimited

Although Jesus was full of love and could communicate it to others whilst He was on earth, God’s plan was initially limited. In other words, in entering into a world of space and time, Jesus was necessarily limited by the laws of space and time.... (www.catholic365.com)

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We might begin by asking how our enemies got to be our enemies in the first place...Jesus had enemies for just the opposite reason that most people do: because of His unwillingness to compromise with evil. To whatever extent we may, through God's grace, bear holiness in our own lives, we too will win enemies……….

For first-century Jews, “your enemies” and “those who persecute you” were most obviously the despised Roman oppressors. But Jesus challenged his disciples to love and to pray for the very people who occupy their land, tax them heavily and treat them harshly and unjustly.... (www.catholic365.com)

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New war and just war

After the collapse of the bipolar world order (1989/91), many military conflicts broke out in the destabilized and deeply changing world, mostly with an ethnical or islamist background. Due to this fact the focus within the concept of war has changed from the aggression of sovereign states to milita... (www.catholic365.com)

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Anxiety and Trust

A four-year-old reported to his mother that his toothbrush had fallen into the toilet. She fished it out and gingerly deposited it into the garbage can. A few minutes later, he brought her another toothbrush--her own--and said, “You’d better throw this one away too. It fell in the toilet last week.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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3-dimensional faith in a 2-dimensional world

People often talk about body and soul as if they were two completely separate and independent constructs, and that faith resides within the purview of the latter rather than the former. Perhaps for some it does; but not for Catholics. The Catholic faith involves the participation of the whole person... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Wilderness Experience

Perhaps the original wilderness experience occurred when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt in what is called the Exodus experience.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic Warning: Beanie Babies are the work of the devil.

As most parents know, carrying a two year old and a four year old to Mass is a…shall we say…an adventure. My daughter, Regan, was two years old when she discovered Beanie Babies and dolls. To my everlasting dismay, she latched onto the goat Beanie Baby and a dollar store Barbie knockoff.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Jesus gave us the Sacrament of Reconciliation not as a simple option, but as something He wants us to use……When we ignore this sacrament, we ignore Jesus' command given for our spiritual welfare. And when we ignore His command, we ignore Him."

Our salvation hinges on trusting in God’s mercy. But remember: Mercy means pardon for guilt. Pardon for our guilt can come, by God’s mercy, only if (a) we face and acknowledge our guilt under God, and (b) we are truly sorry for having offended God.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Alms from the Alabaster Jar

“While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. “This perfume could have b... (www.catholic365.com)

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Belief and Trust

While engaged in my hobby of bookstore browsing, a book of phrases caught my attention because it gave a humorous twist to biblical phrases. One phrase that evoked a chuckle was, “O ye of little faith,” with its definition: “Those who look both ways before crossing a one-way street.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hello Joe; What do you know?

My wife and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. We have four kids who range from 25 down to 2. Those four kids have three different biological fathers. Context is everything and I want to give you some context to this. When my wife and I met 18 years ago, she had a 7-year-old son. She ha... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Come Follow Me" How To Manual

Opening Bible for daily B-Mail—found John sending a letter today. As I read, the Holy Spirit led me to see the connection with this Lents theme hidden in John’s writings.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Beauty of the Risen Lord

In my previous writing, “A Lenten Reflection" I used our five senses to enhance the thoughts that could connect our Lenten journey to the need for the Lord’s presence and intercession in our walk moving towards Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Humility's Forgotten Gem: Confidence

Humility. Is there any other word that is like kryptonite to the soul? I do not know about you, but if there is one virtue I avoid talking about or exemplifying, it has to be humility. No, I do not run around telling the world how great I am. On the same token, I do not consider a humble attitude to... (www.catholic365.com)

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Do you know your next door neighbor?"

Today Jesus gives us the “Golden Rule”. He gives a new focus for our moral choices, asking us to see ourselves in others. If we saw another person as “our self”, we wouldn’t make many of the choices that we do.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Lent, Fasting, and Receiving Divine Light

Lent is a sacred season which helps us to make sense of life. Why is this the case? Precisely because through the sincere and ardent practice of the disciplines of Lent—prayer, fasting and almsgiving—our lives are reoriented to Christ, which means our lives have more meaning—divine light floods in, ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Worry and Trust

Imagine Jesus appearing to you and giving you a specific command to avoid something, and then restating that command five more times. You would certainly take that admonition seriously. This is exactly what Jesus did when he delivered a forceful sermon condemning worry as a sign of lack of trust in ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Hacksaw Ridge and The New Civil Discourse Part II

I recently published part 1 of Hacksaw Ridge and The New Civil Discourse addressing the division our nation is experiencing 4 Solutions to Achieving Unity. Today I wish to share four solutions to achieving the unity all of us, no matter which side of the aisle we are on, are looking for.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Are you Ready? - short story about a future church

The year is 2155 AD at a time in history where so many predictions of the 1900’s and earlier swept into the 21st century with so little preparation by government and church leaders to prepare spiritually for what could become the ultimate end of Judeo-Christian principles and life as we knew it shou... (www.catholic365.com)

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