This weekend, we celebrate three holidays, each with its own way of seeing beyond the horizon of this life. Let’s explore the history and meaning of Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day and how they help us navigate the reality of our mortality. Halloween is the oldest of these holidays and takes us…
God gives us two lives, one physical and one spiritual. As humans we are wired for the physical life. Things that keep us alive are automatic. Forexample, our hearts beat, and our lungs breathe without thought. We are well equipped tosatisfy our hunger by growing, hunting, or searching for food. When we are threatened, wehave…
As Christians, we have a divine calling, and God gives us a life on earth to understand it andrespond to it in faith. Today we journey with the converted Jews in the book of Hebrews asthey are coached on how to respond to this calling. Then we will consider the words of Jesusas he calls…
God wants to get PERSONAL with us. Today’s scripture gives us several stories where Godengages with Abraham, Martha, and Mary in much the same way he desires to journey witheach of us. Let’s explore THESE interactions and a story about a deacon’s journey into ministryand ask ourselves, how is God actively engaging each of US…
Happy Pentecost Sunday! A day when we remember how the early Christians were gathered in one place, as we are today, and experienced the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. Let’s take a deep dive into the waters of the Holy Spirit and discover where it fits into our spiritual journey. This is a quote…
When one of our kids struggled a little in elementary school, she told us she did better when she was assigned as seat in the front of the class. It turns out, she needed glasses, but she didn’t know that other kids saw the world more clearly than her. When she got her first pair,…
Happy Easter! Easter brings a renewed Hope to our world. The day of Christ’s resurrectionmay be the most hopeful day on record. It was the day that we learned that the Gospel ofJesus was true. The day our Savior proved his divine nature by rising from the dead. The daymankind confirmed that, “God so loved…
We are blessed to have 4 adults and 2 children in our St James RCIA program this year. We callthose preparing for baptism, “The Elect,” because they have been called by God to join Hiscommunity. At the Rite of Election on Feb 17th, they began a period of intense preparation toreceive the Sacraments of Initiation…
Today, may be one of the hardest days to be Catholic. Here we are, 5 days into Lent and goingthrough withdrawals from the things we’ve given up, and, to make matters worse, we all hadto wake up an hour earlier, due to the time change. Maybe this explains why the 11:30 massis so popular today!…
In today’s gospel Jesus shares The Beatitudes, a teaching that forms the foundation of Christian living. Our Catechism contains a section called, “Our Vocation to Beatitude,” and helps us navigate to the desire for happiness. It says, “This desire is of divine origin: God has placed it in the human heart in order to draw…