I appreciate Alcuin. I think I appreciate him more every time I think about him, because to him learning was a passion and others benefited from his passion.
by Kristin Fontaine I was driving around with my son and another driver or a pedestrian did something that was ill-advised right in front
As emissaries of the mysterious, steady and holy love that is God, we are called to ardently become ourselves and also to truly accept one another.
… what makes the scriptures important is their role as the “canon” (measuring stick) of the Christian faith. They are our traditionally agreed-upon standard or benchmark. They tell us our story and teach us who to be in the world.
God’s voice comes to us each and every day. Sometimes in grand notes and sometimes in the subtle whispers of children. It’s a voice of love and hope and peace.
Are you the Pharisee, the sinner, or one of the bystanders? Regardless of where I locate myself in this story on any given day, I find it to be a prompt to approach Christ, whether at the altar or in a neighbor, with great love. And to ask the question, ‘with whom am I eating?’.
… like Stephen, we can’t know when even our last minute prayers might make all the difference.
God has been with us from our first breaths to our last ones (which we haven’t quite gotten to yet, thank God). Even when we think we are too big to need God or anybody else, we usually find that that isn’t the case at all.
We start out as children with a very “Chutes and Ladders” notion of virtue and vice–do good things and you get to scoot up the ladder, do bad things and down the slide you go.
We all have addictions, wounds and failures that cause us shame and get in the way of our relationships with one another and with God. To get past them we have to embrace them, acknowledge and work with them.