It’s happened again. God has shown me that He hears our prayers and He answers them. It may take time but He answers them. For the last few months I’ve really stepped up my game as far as praying every day, listening to reflections and doing spiritual reading again. As you may have noticed I …
Tag: faith
Take Up Your Cross
Most of us are pretty spoiled. Almost everything we do benefits only us. How will this action benefit me? Will it help me get a better job? Will it help me make more money so I can get more “stuff”? In today’s Gospel reading, MK 8:34-35, Jesus tells us we must take up our cross …
What Can I Do
Let me continue with the theme of my last post. When I first started reading the Bible I would randomly open it and read whatever was written on the page. I believed then and I believe now this was how Jesus, through the Holy Spirit talked to me. When I was pondering something of a …
You Can’t Take it With You
Back before I fell off the back of a truck I remember how I was always the guy who never had enough. I never had enough money, I never had enough stuff. I was always working at least two jobs but I never had enough. No matter how much money I made it was never …
He will not let you be tempted
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. - 1 Corinthians 10:13 (RSV2CE) If I had to choose one …
I was lost, but now am found
So how's the whole Lent thing working out for you? Keeping all those Lenten resolutions? Yeah, same here. Out of four, I've kept one and a half. No excuses, I'm just a slug. But why should Lenten resolutions be any different than anything else in my life - half done? Maybe it's just the old …
Getting Older
Ok, before you say anything, I know I didn't post yesterday but I was just exhausted, I pretty much spend 10 hours a day staring at a computer screen, and frankly, when I get home I don't always feel like looking at another one, In addition, I had to do some work of the parish …
Forty Days, Forty Posts
Here we are in another Lenten season. For the last two years, I have not written much of anything, I have stopped attending Mass and I have almost (not quite) gone back to my pre-reversion ways. With everything that is going on in the world I have come to the realization that I better get …
Their Eyes Were Opened
Today is the Third Sunday of Easter. We are almost into our third month of the coronavirus pandemic. we have lived through 40 days of Lent without being able to go into our churches, without being able to celebrate Mass and even more importantly, without being able to receive the Body and Blood of our …
Who’s Side is God on
I am about to ask a question for which I have no answer. But then isn’t that what life is about, trying to find answers to unanswerable questions? The other day I happened to go onto Facebook. There was a post from one of my Facebook friends who is going through a nasty custody battle …
The Wayward Catholic 