Can You Handle the Truth?
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) A recent ad for a hearing aid company cites a study stating that in marriages where a spouse has hearing loss, both people suffer. Problems arise when the one who…
Don’t Just SAY Grace; Show It.
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) One of the un-mourned casualties of the Covid Pandemic has been civility. Managers of casual dine-in restaurants strapped by staffing challenges can testify to that. They’ve seen impatient customers throw…
A Sublime Confinement
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) The dictators of this world like to call religion a dictatorship—and then deprive people of the freedom to subject themselves to it. In China especially, people who choose Christ as…
Driving Satan Crazy is a Full-Time Job
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) What do Mary’s Assumption and the Book of Job have in common? Satan’s jealousy. The Evil One’s jealousy of innocence is apparent in both accounts. The Book of Job has…
Eat-to-live food for a live-to-eat world
(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: ) In Biblical times, a pandemic would cause famine and many would starve to death for lack of sustenance. The 21st century pandemic we’re living through has caused many in the…
Feast on the Peace of God’s Mind
(To hear the audio version of this post, please visit ) When you’re in solitary confinement, sustenance is scarce whether your prison is a 10 x 10 cell or a vast expanse of desert. Or a crowded city block, for…
Overhear Your Own Prayer
(For the audio version of this blog, visit: ) A little movie with a limited release had a big impact on me recently. Shepherd: The story of a Jewish Dog, tells the story of Kaleb, a beloved German shepherd taken…
Achieving Herd Immunity to Sheep Anonymity
One of the worst things you can call someone in today’s world is a sheep. Today the word connotes someone without an identity who follows a crowd of other like-minded sheep. But 2000 years ago, a man identified his followers…
Making Our Author Smile
The readings for this Sunday’s mass have all the makings of a Charlie Chaplin comedy starring his “Little Tramp.” The basis of comedy is contrast and conflict, and the mission of spreading God’s word is filled with both. This is…
If It’s Broke, Fix It
An article about the benefits of swearing in the workplace was posted on LinkedIn recently. Many who read the piece applauded its message: that foul language can sharpen important points and is actually a sign of intelligence. But people of…