Tag: Love

“Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace”

The prayer that begins with this petition is my favorite and the favorite of millions of people of various religious denominations around the world. A musical version of the prayer, “Make me a channel of your peace,” is also popular with church...

An Offering of Broken Bread

We should know that no nuclear test can go unnoticed. Well, for us believers even the largest nuclear test would be child play when compared to the Resurrection, the most earthshaking, unrepeatable event in the history of the universe. Its...

Good Friday: The Ultimate Expression of God’s Love

On Good Friday, we meet to participate in the liturgies of the Church that remember and commemorate the Passion and Death of our Lord and Savior Jesus. To a nonbeliever, it may seem odd that so many of the faithful gather today to immortalize the...

To Bounce a Baby

The Lord’s Prayer provides us with insight regarding our relationship to the Father: We are His children! We are His sons and daughters! St. Paul (Rom 8:14-21; 9:8; Gal 3:26; and Phil 2:15) reminds us that through this “adopted” relationship, we...

So, What is Love?

In preparing couples for marriage, I enjoy asking them what seems to be a simple question: “So, what is love?” Now for many of us, the word love is among our favorites. On any given day, I would wager that we utter the word many, many times. But do...

Father Knows Best

We should be grateful to Jesus (Mt 6:24-34) also for revealing to us this side of our heavenly Father’s tender heart. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life...

Too Tall an Order?

Should we take Jesus seriously? The quick answer is “YES.” But that quick answer would expose the superficiality of our commitment to Jesus and the shallowness of our faith. By now it should have dawned on us that Jesus’ words are truly words of...

Remembering How to Love

Merry Christmas! As we contemplate the wonders of this great feast of our salvation, let us take the time to reflect on our past, present, and future. What has God done? What is God doing? And what will God do for us? Recently, I saw the play, “A...