· 21 April 2008 | 1054 words
From Br. Joseph -- We have all seen pictures of the crucifixion. There is one particular picture, a bit different from most, which I want to describe. The viewpoint of the picture is from above the Cross, a little higher...
· 10 April 2008 | 598 words
From Br. Joseph -- There are two sides to faith, just as there are two sides to a coin. One side of the "coin of faith" looks externally, that is, it looks outside of our selves to others for examples...
· 15 November 2007 | 123 words
If I just do my thing and you do yours, We stand in danger of losing each other and ourselves I am not in this world to live up to your expectations; But I am in this world to...
· 1 October 2007 | 407 words
From Br. Joseph -- The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater. (Peter Kreeft) There is a grove of aspen trees that cover nearly 200 acres in south-central...
· 15 September 2007 | 388 words
I wonder if ism's are not so much a form for labeling or categorizing things but rather a way to separate us from each other and reality. While confirming the authorship of a quote for Signposts, I came across a...
· 2 September 2007 | 780 words
The term Body of Christ means three things: 1) the actual physical body of Jesus; 2) the Church (with a capital "C") because we as individual persons are church, parts of the Body, branches on the Vine; and 3) the Eucharist, the Blessed...
· 2 September 2007 | 106 words
Gossip is a community killer. It is a cancer. It separates, isolates, and destroys a person. It literally kills something inside, not only for the victim, but those who spread the gossip. In the victim, it kills self-esteem and spreads...
· 27 May 2007 | 303 words
Breath is as essential attribute of one's person, whose existence we may only infer through other media: the sight of our chest rising and falling, the sound of air rushing into our sinuses, the disturbance of the atmosphere near...
· 9 May 2007 | 175 words
Inspired to react to a Frederick Franck quote, I wrote this. While watching the six o'clock news, I am forced to face the poverty of my spirit. I am powerless. I am impotent. I am not in control. There is...
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us