By Fr. Harry Brown, C.PP.S. In prescientific times, people worried when they had to face diseases. They regarded sickness, leprosy and fever as caused by evil spirits. God had to intervene and show his mighty strength. Healing stood for expelling evil spirits. Jesus...
By Fr. Tony Fortman C.P.P.S. In today’s Gospel, Jesus expects us to give our best. You and I are made mostly comfortable by many blessings. We have enough food, we have automobiles, we have homes. (Some of us may not have all of that, but most of us do.) When we are...
Lazarus and the Rich Man by Jacopo Bassano By Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus (Luke 16:20). One of the things that I learned early on in Biblical studies was to pay attention to names as they appear in Biblical texts....
By Fr. Joe Uecker, C.PP.S. You just died. You come before the throne of God. God doesn’t say much of anything. God just looks at you with love. What gets you is when you look around and see who is there! You see Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Sadam Hussein, the shooter...
By Brother Tom Bohman, C.PP.S. It was the summer of 1958, and I was eight years old. My brother and I decided to build a fort of sticks and wood on the north part of our farm near Osgood, Ohio. It was one of those moments of freedom and we worked on the fort for about...
By Fr. Tony Fortman, C.PP.S. Today we hear from Sirach. “My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek...
