Is it better to be loved or feared? Asked Machievelli in “The Prince”, he said both but when not possible fear is more reliable discipline for people. As death and suffering are fruits of our original sin, so is fear. It is a reaction. Nothing seems more logical or...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Everyone sees only one part or sees something in reference to past experiences. Some see roses having thorns, some see thorns having roses some refuse to see the thorns, others refuse to see the flowers. What does Jesus see? To...

Philosopher shirt: To do is to be- Socrates To be is to do- Aristotle Scooby doo be do. Like Scoody, we do have a mystery to solve today. Today the church prays in her opening prayer: made know to the human race your wondrous mystery. The mystery of himself. God the...

In space, terms like up, down have no meaning. They are only in reference to gravity. In space not only is something like time of day and night irrelevant but so are directions and space. The center of space is ever present. You are as ever close to the center of the...

Loved playing with Legos, fun to just do whatever but my favorite was having something to build, a plan a model. Each little piece added to something and you may not even know it at first. Jesus is a living stone, to have and to give life. He is the piece that makes...

The closer we get to someone and know them, the more we are able to recognize them by smaller and more unique things. Priest who celebrated the funeral for the Amityville Horror family, heard his father’s caugh, prisoner in war was blind, he could recognize Fr. Verbis...

Lighthouse, points out danger but also gives hope. We must be able to understand and interprete what it means. So that it then can lead us and we can receive it fully. The disciples here are on a journey, for them it is a sad journey but it is still a journey of...

Mercy speaks louder than words. At the heart of easter is God’s mercy. However it is also the end. In the second reading we hear about a living hope, one that is alive and adapts to our situation. It offers us life after our sins. God’s mercy is not only the means to...

“More torturous than all else is the human heart beyond remedy, who can understand it? The Lord alone probes the mind and tests the heart.”-Prophet Jeremiah The human heart is very fickle, changing and oscillating all the time from one extreme to the other. The...

In 1968 Padre Pio died after bearing the stigmata for 50 years. Very well examined.St. Francis’ wounds. The last thing about St. Francis to cover is really the first thing since it is only last in the timing that it happened. The wounds of St. Francis, the wounds of...