The following just “happened” to be the prayer on my Thanksgiving Novena for the Memorial of the Passion of John the Baptist.
DAY 2: Even before you were born, St. John the Baptist, you expressed your delight and adoration in the presence of the unborn Lord Jesus Christ. You lived a life totally dedicated to bringing people to the joyful realization that God is concerned with their lives and their salvation. Help me today to bask in the care and compassion of the Holy Trinity, and to be able to acknowledge my indebtedness to the One who loves me so completely.
St. John the Baptist may I encounter Christ as you did and recognize that “He must increase; I must decrease.” (John 3:30 NABRE) so that all may see Jesus in me.
Having been deprived of my earthly mother and heavenly mother during my impressionable years, and with the former having joined the latter, I find myself coming back to Mary for something–what, I don’t know. If nothing else, I’m sure she can say “Hi” to Mom.
On this solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, I’d like to recall, in the spirit of Matthias, someone well-known and anonymous. Though not a part of today’s scripture readings, Paul and Silas’ jailer at Phillipi, was nearly lost to life, and then found eternal life when the Master of the Universe moved the earth for an early release of the two imprisoned evangelizers
Suffering from a lighter than air literary sense, I seldom take on the weightier issues for fear of being punched by my own punchlines. In spite of this trepidation, at the behest of the 3rd person of the subject of this scratching, here is my encounter with the 3 in 1, hoping that I won’t have to pay thrice in eternity.
I have a little arrangement with the Trinity. They propose; I say nos. I am trying to be less trying to the eye in the sky, but I’m a hard nut who’s cracked
Here’s the favorite whipping boy of the new covenant, who checked out scripturally before anyone could apply Jesus’ enemy loving philosophy to him. So can we, in good conscience still continue the whipping?
The place where Divinity hits the ground running, and we sing out our joy and ring out our bells…
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Welcome to the Matthiast blog, honoring St. Matthias. This man, an apostolic blip in the salvation narrative, followed Jesus from the beginning, was never mentioned in the Gospels, chosen by lot in the Acts of the Apostles, then vanished, literarily, that is. Here we celebrate the spirit of this virtually invisible servant of Our Lord, and hope to be as faithfully selfless as he was.
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