Category: Lent ’07

Today’s Gospel was on the Prodigal Son. It is a beloved story to all Christians and one of the most known of Jesus’ parables to those outside the faith. Most of the time we focus on the younger prodigal, his…

Today is a unique day during the Lenten observance. It is the feast day of one of the most beloved saints of all time: Patrick of Ireland. Patrick composed one of my favorite hymns, St. Patrick’s Breastplate. This hymn is…

We cannot control what happens to us; the future is not in our hands. We can prepare for it, try to put ourselves in the best possible position to deal with it, but in the end it has how we…

We are half of the way through our journey, and I will tell you that it has been tough keeping up with the demands of posting. However, I love blogging and blogs. The Internet has given us all chances to…

The purpose of history and the work of historians is to analyze and explain the past, its meaning and implications for how we got where we are and where we are going. For example, in the United States, it is…

Yesterday I began talking about truth and its relationship to love. To be truthful eventually involves sacrifice. There will come a moment when telling the truth will cost you something. Not to belabor the pun but that is the moment…

Can there be freedom without truth? Can there be hope in the land when truth is sacrificed for a lie, for expedient gain, for political advantage? When truth is reduced to mere opinion, so that everyone has their own truth,…

Today, Sunday, is my day of Eucharist. One synonym is the Great Thanksgiving. We are called to come to the table and sit down beside Christ and the Apostles, and share with all who have come before, are, and who…

Work was frustrating today. I kept finding program problems that when corrected required me to redo many of the screen shots and explanations in the documentation I am writing. It feels like you have redo what you have just done,…

Sometimes love is tired. The eleven disciples who shared the end of the Passover meal with Jesus all claimed to love him. They all said that they would die with him if necessary and of course would never deny him….