(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mass-Blog-Movie-Review-Jesus-Revolution-2023.mp3) Yesterday I took the family to see “Jesus Revolution.” This movie is inspirational, but it’s also a cautionary tale about the fine line faith leaders of all denominations walk between Good Shepherd and Cult Superstar. In a genius piece of casting, it stars Jonathan Roumie, […]
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mass-Blog-for-the-Second-Sunday-of-Lent-2023.mp3) The readings for Lent commemorate scary times. This Sunday’s are particularly fearsome for those involved because these people are pushed into something new. Nevertheless, they faced the unknown with courage born of faith and family. For them, raising a family meant generations of succession, and […]
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mass-Blog-Movie-ReviewTitanic-2023.mp3) I took the family to see the 25th Anniversary re-release of James Cameron’s “Titanic.” On second viewing, as a more mature viewer than I was on the film’s maiden voyage a quarter century ago, it says more to me about idolatry than it did about […]
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit:http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mass-Blog-for-the-First-Sunday-of-Lent-2023.mp3) In this hyper-connected world, it seems everybody’s a prophet. A prophet’s challenge in seeking wisdom from so many sources is, how do we find the one leading to truth? It seems that must happen as it did among the ancient prophets we revere—over time. Maybe the […]
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mass-Blog-for-the-7th-Sunday-in-Ordinary-Time-2023.mp3) Sunday’s first reading recalls when Moses received the law upon which all of God’s chosen people would be raised: “Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy. … You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Lv 19:1-2, 17-18) How could anyone argue with […]
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mass-Blog-for-the-6th-Sunday-in-Ordinary-Time-2023.mp3) Our most popular songs celebrate humanity’s most comfortable virtues—love, chief among them. Our sins don’t get as much poetic attention because, let’s face it, they don’t feel good. But leave it to Groucho Marx, one of the 20th Century’s great comedian philosophers, to poke fun […]