A few years ago I came across the writings of the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaria Escriva. At the time I didn't have much time to read them but recently as I was perusing my 4,000 bookmarks (okay maybe not that many) and came across them again. St. Josemaria believed we can all find …
Less Me, More Him
This past month I have been pretty down spiritually. I have been trying to figure out why. I think last week I may have come up with the reason why, or at least what to do about it. I took a week off from work last week with the intention of making a pilgrimage of …
Update: How Things Change
After I wrote my last post I had another one of those "coincidences" where out of the blue something happened to shake things up. It is starting to make me think that God really is listening to me. First, let me start by saying I don't believe in coincidences. There was a time when I …
How Things Change
I have had a few rough weeks at work lately. The problem is, now let me try to put this as nice as I can, I am surrounded by profanity, negative thinking, and profanity. Okay, I shouldn't say surrounded, it doesn't emanate from my office but from the one next to me. It really got …
Using His Inside Voice
A couple of Sunday's ago we had a discussion at the RCIA session about how God speaks to us. As I have written before, with all the noise that surrounds us it can be difficult at times to hear Him. One of the participants asked how we can tell if it is God or Satan …
Eyes that do not see
It was either this week or last week at the RCIA program we were discussing how things were in the "old days". I used to call them "the good old days" but now I question just exactly how good they were. We talked about how when I started school we began every day with the …
Whose Side Are You On
It's time for the Catholic Church to reunite. As St. Paul asked the Corinthians "Is Christ divided?"
Out into the Deep Water
This Sunday's Gospel reading is Luke 5: 1 - 11. This is when Jesus first asks several of the apostles to follow him and He will "make them fishers of men". Isn't this what Jesus calls us all to do? Photo by Manuel Sardo on Unsplash But Jesus is asking us to do more than just catch others …
You Did What at Mass
Last Sunday's 10:00 Mass kicked off Catholic School Week. Many of the students from the parish school were there with their parents. Before the Mass began I was watching the people who were coming in and I noticed a few things missing. Let me begin by saying I am in no way judging anyone in …
Five out of Seven Ain’t Bad
Once again I must apologize for my lack of posts, although some may be thankful for that. I have no excuse. It certainly isn't for want of time, I have had plenty of that lately, I haven't been busy, not even with the RCIA program. Nope, I am just suffering from one of the seven …
The Wayward Catholic 