The original prenatal evangelist, John the Baptist lived only to prepare souls for the encounter with Jesus telling his listeners, “Behold, one is coming after me; I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.” John baptized with water the One who would baptize with fire and the Holy Spirit.
Between Mother’s Day and the Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, let’s look to the example of Mother Mary, who knew how to deal with close encounters of the spiritual kind…
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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