Photo Credits: Adobe Stock Palm Sunday begins next week’s harrowing account of our Redemption. Over centuries legends have magnified the event to set our dispositions toward a meaningful appreciation of what happened on the coming important days. For instance, we have adopted palm branches as the “leafy branches” one of the evangelists describes in his... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com We humans are a competitive lot, aren’t we? This isn’t bad either. Being competitive makes us strive higher, work harder, uncover competencies we never knew we had. There is a joy in achievement and a contribution in making the world a little better because of our competitive achievement, even in sports! I... Continue Reading →

Photo credit: Pixabay.com In the Gospel for this coming Sunday, March 10, we have what many writers tell us is one of the most poetic and beautiful lines in the Christian Scriptures: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: ajrehn.files.wordpress.com This coming Sunday, March 3, we will hear John’s version of the Cleansing of the Temple which is placed at the beginning of Jesus’s public life, whereas in Matthew and Mark it is placed near the end of his life. John gives the story a fuller treatment going so far as to... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Mary Ann Flannery, S.C. I have a very informative map of the Holy Land which I received as part of the tour I had taken two years ago in September. On one side is an enlarged display of where Jesus traveled during his mission along with an accompanying sidebar legend indicating exactly where... Continue Reading →

Screenshot This is an honest question. And it begs for an answer. Let’s look at a quick history and then how charity fits into the answer. Black History Month began first as Black History Week, an initiative of Carter G. Woodson, a founder of the Association for the Study of African American History. The son... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com The admired American philosopher, Martha Nussbaum, wrote in an essay titled, “Beings Entitled to Dignified Existence,” about an incident when the “Roman leader Pompey in 55 B.C.E., staged a combat between humans and elephants. ‘The animals perceived they had no hope, and, according to Pliny who recorded the incident, they entreated the... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Adobe Stock Well, I got up one morning last week and I checked my weather app so I knew how to dress for the day. Whoopee! I think or say or yell! Big snowstorm coming. I’m immediately transported to childhood. Hope there’s no school. I’m drawn to my childhood years. Gotta call pals... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com Recently, I’m inundated with this question. I think you are as well. Our country teeters on a shaky fulcrum, a harbinger of days and months ahead as we near political conventions, primary elections, and finally general elections. Many of us are concerned more about the safety of persons doing their civic duty... Continue Reading →

Photo Credit: Pixabay.com She is wandering around the cavernous chapel, a diminutive figure searching for persons she knows who have difficulty hearing. She is a retired teacher of the hearing impaired, a knowledgeable source about hearing aids and their small radios for volume control which she carries with her. She is armed also with a... Continue Reading →