Category: Faith
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This Tremendous Lover by Eugene Boylan – A Great Read!
This Tremendous Lover by Eugene Boylan captures the transcendentals – beauty, truth and goodness – of the Catholic religion. It presents an inspiring incentive and pathway to help one fully live out the promises of Christ. The feature image of the saints was chosen because their teachings and philosophies can be seen as an influence…
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Thoughts on the Feast Day of Saint Catherine of Siena
Do you talk to yourself in your mind going over whatever events have happened, are happening or will possibly happen? I have and do and believe this is a common thing that people do. But what if instead of talking to yourself why not talk to Jesus? Did He not say – I am with…
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Finding Religious Inspiration in a Secular Age: A Review of Slattery’s “Enchanted by Eternity”
“If Catholicism is only a ‘religion’ then to hell with it”. So starts William Slattery’s book entitled “ Enchanted by Eternity: Recapturing the Wonder of the Catholic Worldview”. The book drew me to it with reviews talking about the kingdom of God on Earth. Slattery starts off with a recollection of his youthful questioning of…
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Artemis II and Unseen Realities
The Artemis II mission is well under way with a schedule splash down on April 10th. This is the first moon expedition since 1972 and will travel further into deep space than ever traveled before as it does a flyby around the far side of the moon. The mission is a real plus to NASA’s…
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The Holy of Holies – Holy Week, Easter, Octave of Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday
The pinacle of the Catholic liturgical year starts this Sunday, Palm Sunday, and extends for the next two weeks. Google Artificial Intelligence put together this graphic on major Catholic Church Feasts and Sundays. It is AI and should be taken with a grain of salt but I believe it does underscore the importance of the…
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The NFL Prime Window vs the Eternal Now
Jesus’ parable of the workers in the vineyard shows us God, that in His infinite generosity bestows the same blessing on those workers that arrived late as on those that labored all day. This while not diminishing the great blessings on the full day laborers. If looked at from the perspective of eternity the present…
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The Greatest Season of Love
The world celebrates St Valentines Day on February 14th. It is a day set aside to honor the gift of love and the loves in our lives. The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the US. When the valentine-exchange cards made in school activities are included…
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From the NFL Draft to AI to Outer Space: My Week Searching and Where it Led
From Artificial Intelligence to ocean depths to outer space, the world resounds of the glory of God! My week started with some football queries on the site sports Sports Reference. I was looking at college players that interest me for the 2026 NFL draft. From there I used Google AI to help evaluate the players…
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Believing in the Comeback: The NFL’s Next Great Turnaround Story
The ability to turn things around from a bad situation to a good one is cherished. Our literature and movies are full of such turnarounds. We are drawn to such stories. Our religious hope echos this in the saying – Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” This love of dramatic…
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Faith And The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God 90% of people believe in God I believe In God Less than half of people (48%) see God’s hand at work in all or most things that happen to them.1 The Apostles Creed summarizes the key points of what we believe. It has been in the past attributed to…
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Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Happy New Year! The title is a quote from Psalm 90:12. As we have counted down for the New Year may we also gain wisdom of heart. New Year Day has traditionally been a day to resolve to start the year with resolutions for improvement. For a good source for resolution material let us look…
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And the Word became Flesh . . .
The “Helmut Catch” play in the 2007 season Super Bowl was unbelievable. The “Miracle on Ice” in the 1980 Olympics was unbelievable. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was unbelievable. The First Man on the moon in 1969 was unbelievable. The fall of the World Trade Center towers was unbelievable. The rise of…