There are events in our lives that make lasting impressions on us. In my own life, an event took place many years ago when I was beginning my journey to the diaconate. There were 12 of us in our first year of the program. This was a year of discerning our faith and our personal relationship with God.
Sunday Scriptures
Imagine a World Where Everybody Loved
I invited students to close their eyes and imagine a world where everybody loved each other. The world would be a completely different place if we all loved one another as brothers and sisters. As “cheesy” as that image is, I think it had an impact on how they are to treat one another.
First Encounters with Christ
Father Alonzo Q. Cox reflects on how as Christians, we are to keep our eyes fixated on Jesus.
United In God’s Love And Mercy
AS A CHILD growing up, my family would spend summers in North Carolina. My mother grew up in a town called Williamston, which is about 30 miles west of Greenville, North Carolina. Williamston is a town that, to this very day, everybody knows each other!
How Does God Show Himself?
Father Alonzo Q. Cox reflects on how through the revelation of His Son Jesus, God continues to show Himself to us.
Today Is the Day, Ready or Not
On this Feast of Corpus Christi, Father Anthony Raso reminds us that the Body and Blood of Christ is not just some lovely symbol that we can admire from afar, but a powerful light that we must take within our hearts and then carry into a world that it still too much lost in the dark.
Who God Is – Now and Always
On the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, Father Anthony Raso reflects on how he answered the question of “Who God is” through three periods of his life – and the answer he ultimately reached.
Unlikely Apostles, Then and Now
WHEN I WAS in the seminary, it was stressed to us in the most definite terms that if you wanted to be able to function in the Diocese of Brooklyn as a priest in the last quarter of the 20th century and beyond, you had to learn another language. Classes would be given in Spanish and Italian, so take one, and this means you.
Just Swing From Your Heart
The Love of God is so powerful – much more so than the power of sin – that even death on a cross couldn’t stop it, nor the imperfections of the Apostles, nor the mistakes or unreadiness that might have been present in the first Christians.
Not Changing the Words, Just the Music
IT IS A matter of fascination to me that, after all these years, we have a pope who can be described as “controversial.”
