Normally when a great leader steps forward, his greatest accomplishment is mentioned. John makes a familiar proclamation. He says behold the lamb of God. He was of the family of Zechariah and they had the job of pointing out the lamb. But the lamb was not just...

Pulp Fiction: the miracle a divine intervention: God came down and stopped those bullets. A miracle God makes the impossible possible. You don’t judge the stuff on merit, you felt the touch of God, God came down. Because of that, he gave up his life, he repented. The...

Christmas has always been a time of space and stars. It was in 1968, Apollo 8 on Christmas eve flew around the moon and took a picture of the moon. On Christmas day 2021 the James Webb telescope was launched. Fun fact: launches are always as close to equator as...

Trophic cascade: how bringing wolves back into Yellowstone national park and how it changed the direction of rivers. An ecosystem is where each part together works to make one, one organism in a certain way. The Holy Family, not simply three holy people as individuals...

Family with squirrels in their roof. Call in the Pentecostals, they come back. Call the Baptists, they come back. Call the Catholics, they baptize them catholic and now they only see them at Christmas and Easter. Christmas marks the birth of Jesus, the true beginning...

1945 Claude Newman in Warren County Prison in Vicksburg for murder. Given a miraculous medal by a fellow inmate Father, now I know that God loves me. I feel so happy and peaceful as never before. Oh, if only I could be executed tonight and go to God. I remember being...

I’m a big fan of the Podcast “The Exorcist Files” it can be intense but it reveals how so many of the things we believe in and practice play out in the spiritual drama around us. One story is of a young girl who is the daughter of a witch and yes they were real and...

Story of Pope John XXIII and the woman with the apple, you have to be a pope and a saint to get away with that one. The next corporal work is I was naked and you clothed me. Probably the most visceral of the corporal works, evokes a certain unease in us. The...

The first 300 years of the Christian’s history was one of martyrdom. At first it began with opposing the idolatry of the Roman Empire that said they had to sacrifice to the god of the Roman state. However, with Emperor Nero and then Dioclesian, there was an explicit...

Ludwig Beethoven, one of the greatest musicians ever, began to become deaf at the age of 20 and by 45 was completely deaf. As you can imagine that is not very helpful as a musician and a composer, as well as a performer. When his personal piano was examined, there...