Here is the link to Matthew Chapter 22, and a portion of verse 37:
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
As the father of three boys, I have spent some time coaching my sons and their teammates on the basketball court and the baseball [...]
I posted this today on a Facebook page, under a discussion topic heading that read ‘What Would Jesus Say?”
The discussion started with a post of this quotation:
‘If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ When [...]
Here is the link to Matthew Chapter 19, and the text from verse 27.
Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”
Once again, the word everything makes its prominence felt.
When I last met with Sr. Agnes Marie, I told her I was having problems with Peter. She [...]
One more excerpt from the SFO formation preparation materials from last weekend:
“Whenever we face the issue of trust in God, fear is not far away. We want to trust God. We want to believe in God’s love and compassion for us. But we wonder if God will really come through. Will God be there when [...]
The material for my SFO formation meeting last weekend contained this line:
“Through profession of the SFO way of life, we choose to interpret life and find meaning.”
I really struggled with this statement. And my struggles only increased when later in the chapter this example was given as a possible application of that thought:
“A terrorist kills [...]
I have often struggled with understanding the theological virtue of Charity.
In every day life, there are many calls for us to be “charitable.”
I probably get at least one piece of mail a day asking me to contribute to this or that cause. We also get frequent phone calls (or at least we used to before [...]
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Here again is the link for Matthew Chapter 16, and verse 24 from that chapter.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
In the last post on this chapter, I focused on crosses.
Now I wish to move to the idea [...]
About two weeks ago, I wrote the post The Well of Desire as an introduction to the Desire spoke of the Transformation Wheel. Then I read Matthew Chapter 13, and I veered into a discussion on the contextual meaning of the word “everything” in the parable of the pearl.
Today, as I started back into the [...]
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This is the link for Matthew Chapter 14, and verses 29 to 31.
“Come,” He said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his [...]
At this stage, I should make it clear, just in case my wife and kids are reading, that I have no regrets where they are concerned.
They are blessings beyond my wildest dreams, and I wouldn’t consider, even for a moment, trading them for a life of quiet solitude where I could freely pursue intellectual and [...]