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Dragonslayers

Our new men's group at St. George parish has chosen the name "Dragonslayers". We are trying to chart a new course in the direction of...

Flies

We had a fly problem a few months ago at church. They swarmed around a bush by the front door and it took a lot of work to get rid of...

Found Jesus?

A while back, someone asked me "Have you found Jesus?" I said, "Where did you last see Him?" He stared at me with a blank look, clearly...

Judging Your Brother

What does it mean to “judge your brother”? The reference came up again in one of the Mass readings recently. It is sad how few people...

Humility

"The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to use it, neither does he know how to...

No One Else

There are many who claim that there are "many different paths to God" and that "all religions are a path to God". Someone may even have...

A Better Parish

I was asked recently by a non-catholic whether all Catholic Churches were the same. In answering, I realized that I did not want to come...

Blessed

Yesterday's gospel reading includes St. Luke's description of the beatitudes. Jesus probably gave this description of the faithful life...

Please Pray

As you probably know, the Missouri Supreme Court justices decided that a holocaust would be good in this state. Or, you could say that...

People We Can Help

I heard a story recently about a man who had a friend who was blind. He once let his friend drive a car, and just sat in the passenger...

You Cannot Erase God

One of my favorite tv series is "The Twilight Zone". I like sci-fi, but I also really like the way that Rod Serling could make twists in...

Beanstalks

"As I pointed out to somebody long ago, it is one thing to believe that a beanstalk scaled the sky, and quite another to believe that...

Distributism

Speaking to a potential convert to the Church recently, I brought up the subject of the many and various problems with American democracy...

Secularizing the Schools

I do not run in the circles that have anything to do with public school, so this was a new one to me. Apparently, there is an elementary...

How to Keep the Sabbath Day Holy (3)

The other thing that the Trent Catechism tells us that is necessary for the sanctification of Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation is that...

How to Keep the Sabbath Day Holy (2)

Although, as I said, I am not providing a list of "you can do this" and "you cannot do that" for the Christian Sabbath, I will lay out...

How to Keep the Sabbath Day Holy (1)

The Christian Sabbath of Sunday is a development from what the Lord gave the Jews in the Old Testament. One way to point this out is to...

Keep the Sabbath Day Holy

The other night in RCIA Catechism class, we spoke about the Church's Precept to assist at Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation. It...

The Storms

"I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it." St. Faustina

Needs (2)

I wrote about the needs of men yesterday. Today I want to point out the needs of women. As I said yesterday, both men and women can do...

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