Religion

“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of invisible and visible winged seeds, so the stream of time brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the

By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa: “The Godhead hid under

"When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man

"For all that ever was wrong, is wrong, and will be wrong, the price has been paid." Richard John Neuhaus

Slacker me. I missed the Maundy/Holy Thursday service/Mass for the first time in 42 years (if I missed as a younger person, I don't remember it). My absence resulted from a confluence of events: I was exhausted from staying up late the night before; our church

Happy Holy Thursday, so to speak. May your Triduum be reverential and holy. __________ Readers of this blog know I'm a John Zmirak fan (1 [https://thedailyeudemon.com/5865/], 2 [https://thedailyeudemon.com/5951/]). Well, I recently learned that he has moved to New Hampshire, where he is writer-in-residence

Instead of palms, use our lives: "Let us run to accompany him as he hastens towards his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being

Thomas takes a shot at abusive methods of centering prayer: "Occupy your minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Unoccupied, they cannot be." St. Thomas More

The Associated Press continues the confusion about deadly v. mortal sin. In olden days, the deadly sins included lust, gluttony and greed. Now, the Catholic Church says pollution, mind-damaging drugs and genetic experiments are on its updated thou-shalt-not list. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_eu/