BISHOP
Our faith prevails: Time to give thanks
Fear is one of the most primitive — and paralyzing — of reactions to perceived danger.
Who is worthy?
Who is worthy of Jesus Christ? Who is worthy to receive him in Holy Communion?
Creation renewed
Blame these days seems to be the name of the game. With the intensity of the political season reaching its climax in a few days, we can imagine any number of fingers gesticulating to express assorted angers and displeasures, but none perhaps so prominently as the index finger, the one …
Friending God
God desires our hearts, desires our friendship, desires our love. God wants to be our friend. As much as we need God’s friendship, God desperately seems to want ours.
Jesus, our Healer
The Church, to remain true to its divine commission, must seek out the lost, abandoned and abused.
Mission! A Christian identity thing
To be a disciple of Christ is to be on mission. It is what is known as “the Great Commission.”
Faith or fear?
Rejected! One of the most traumatizing verdicts in the English language. Who has not feared or felt it? I didn’t make the team. They put me on the waiting list. I got fired. My spouse is divorcing me. No one calls. It happens to everyone.
Whose Church?
When you think of “the” Church, what image comes to mind? A place you go to pray in? Where you go — or used to go — to Mass?
Questions of identity
The pain and suffering of people, and their friends and families, who experience forms of depression and dysphoria can become a burden so overwhelming that life itself seems unlivable.
The courage to think
None of us likes being told that certain things we would like to do we cannot do — typically because they are illegal, immoral or just bad nutrition.
Saint alive!
We are not just “the” church, but the very body of Christ, in a real, if mystical way. So, if Christ is holy, then how can we not be?
Saints alive!
As most residents of Albany know, we do have many Saints among us
The closeness of Mary
We can always be sure that in coming to Mary we will reach Jesus.
Who’s mad at who?
Pardon my grammar. I am just making a point. I choose not to add the objective “m” at the end of my question. It is “me” who decides who I am – or even whether I am. End conversation.
Family meal
My parents must have been cruel. Or so it seemed. They made us eat liver.
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