by Mathew Swora | Jun 16, 2016
…at the news of this past weekend (June 12, 2016) about the hate crime and the terrorist assault on Pulse, a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, as must be yours. It is the biggest mass shooting by a lone gunman in the U.S. ever, and the biggest terrorist attack here since...
by Mathew Swora | Jun 14, 2016
“But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.8 This is why it[a] says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.”[b]9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly...
by Mathew Swora | May 30, 2016
When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. 2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him...
by Mathew Swora | May 24, 2016
Romans 5: 1: “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not...
by Mathew Swora | May 17, 2016
(The following is the fruit of a year’s reflections after having read The Confessions by St. Augustine) “Grant me what you command, and command of me what you will.” This simple but paradoxical prayer by Aurelius Augustine, the 5th Century bishop of Hippo, North...
