WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM: Thoughts on Christian Faith Formation

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been...

WHY, STILL, THE SCARS?

 John 20: 24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”   But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the...

THREE UNMARKED GRAVES: For Easter, 2018

Isaiah 25: 6 On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all...

A COURAGEOUS REQUEST–A Four-Part Drama

by Mathew Swora Cast: Joseph, Nicodemus, Pilate, Aide de camp. Aide: Two members of the Sanhedrin have come to see you, Governor Pilate. A Joseph of Arimathea, and one Nicodemus, a local. They say it’s urgent. Pilate: Now what do they want? Oh, bring them in! Aide: As...

FOR PALM SUNDAY: WHAT SORT OF ENTRY?

Psalm 118: 25: “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Up the dry, dusty road come the sounds of trumpets, flutes and drums, the steady, rhythmic tread of marching feet, the squealing and squeaking of wheels, the...