CHRISTMASTIDE: MEMORIAL OF STS. BASIL AND GREGORY

CHRISTMASTIDE: MEMORIAL OF STS. BASIL AND GREGORY

When someone is sick we call a doctor. What Doctor of the Church would you call on to heal her? In the first century, in the late 300s, two men were called upon to heal the Church of one of the biggest heresies to the cornerstone of her belief – the Arian heresy against the Trinity. Continue reading CHRISTMASTIDE: MEMORIAL OF STS. BASIL AND GREGORY

CHRISTMASTIDE: FEAST DAY OF ST THOMAS BECKET and THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT

CHRISTMASTIDE: FEAST DAY OF ST THOMAS BECKET and THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT

The Church has stood against the State when the State has tried to supersede her relative authority under God in this world. In standing up to evil and obeying God first, it calls on us all to remember Peter’s words in Acts 5:29 Continue reading CHRISTMASTIDE: FEAST DAY OF ST THOMAS BECKET and THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT

A CHESTERTON ADVENT: BORN AMONG MIRACLES TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO

A CHESTERTON ADVENT: BORN AMONG MIRACLES TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO

God created a universe and He has created a way for all men in that universe to be redeemed! Something science will never be able to accomplish no matter how far it is allowed to progress. And as a dying world watches, it is confounded by the mere servants of God – you and me – who continue to tell them why even as they celebrate Christmas. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: BORN AMONG MIRACLES TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO

A CHESTERTON ADVENT: LOSS ALONG THE WAY

A CHESTERTON ADVENT: LOSS ALONG THE WAY

Those that leave love, that leave us, that leave God, always create sorrow for those they leave. But in that pain, in order for love to succeed and to be sincere, we must hate what is bad and remain true to God and the truth. That is the ultimate paradox of love and loss we face in this life journey on earth to heaven, in this Advent journey to Christ now. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: LOSS ALONG THE WAY