Primary Object of Love
"For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?"
-- Mt 16:6... Read More
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Horizontal without the Vertical
There can be no true and sustaining love of neighbor without love of God. ... Read More
“He breathed on them…”
A reflection on the 'breath of God'... Read More
Does God show “wrath”? Is the pandemic a “chastisement”?
Is the Wuhan virus a chastisement? What might we really mean by terms like ‘chastisement’ and ‘wrath’ when we apply such words to God? Good food for thought: READ HERE... Read More
The Creed, beneath the surface: Episode 2 – “One God”
How can God be one and three? What does it mean that Love is Trinitarian? The wonderful doctrine of God as one Being and three Persons.... Read More
God and Neighbor
Loving God and neighbor sums up the moral law. The mark of the Left is to attempt love of neighbor without love of God; always and inevitably failing miserably.... Read More
The contraception bomb
The demographic winter of the western world is not the result of splitting the smallest element of matter (atom), but rather the largest element of spirit (love).... Read More
Love invites, necessitating a response
God is Love (1 Jn 4:8). That's His unchanging nature. Salvation depends on our choice to cooperate with grace to align our will with His.... Read More
Two Complementary Components of Being
In reflecting the infinite Love of God, every community of persons includes two groups of people: some whose primary concern is truth, justice, and excellence; and others whose focus is compassion, mercy, and equality. Some distinguish these mindsets as conservative and liberal, others masculine and feminine. They can be metaphorically referred to as the head […]... Read More
The Two Kinds of Fear
There are two kinds of fear of God: one is healthy and essential to happiness, the other unhealthy and essential to unhappiness. Lack of the first leads to acquiring the second. The first kind of fear of God enables those with immature intellects, unable to understand the big picture (child, adolescent, young adult), to […]... Read More
Not even loved ones
Love comes in different forms. With regard to sin, love must include admonishment or at least non-support of the moral wrong. What do you do when a loved one invites you to an invalid wedding? When a friend asks you to lie for him? Or when a child of yours tells you he/she has decided to act on his/her (disordered) homosexual desires with unnatural relationships? Does misplaced compassion or fear of being ostracized get the best of you? Or do you choose God's will, communicating it with clarity and charity, and then suffer the consequences?
These questions we all must ask ourselves.... Read More
To impede life-giving love is an act of death.
Too many people do not make the connection between God Who Is Life-giving Love and how humanity is meant to image Him on earth. Contraception is a grave insult to the Creator and a severe attack on His image, human nature. As the root of our culture of death, it has far-reaching deleterious effects that most people choose not to think about. Hence, Christ through His Church officially teaches it is intrinsically evil and can never be chosen in good conscience.... Read More
Love is also truth and justice
In our era that emphasizes love as mercy (at the expense of justice), let us not forget that love is also: comparing some people to a brood of vipers (Mt 12:34), knocking over tables of the greedy and whipping their animals (Jn 2:15), comparing your good friend to Satan (Mt 16:23), telling some people they’re […]... Read More
Marriage and the Eucharist: Why are They so Challenging?
It’s unfortunate, but not surprising that believers have had problems accepting Christ’s teachings on Marriage and the Eucharist. Along with the obvious poor catechesis, here are 3 reasons that may shed a little light on this phenomenon: 1) These are the two teachings in the gospels that Christ’s disciples had problems accepting (Mt 19:10; Jn […]... Read More
The Paradox of Love
This week’s mass readings have been focusing on the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus shocks the world with His wisdom, as He continues to do today. Anger, lust, greed, dishonesty, and ultimately idolatry, are condemned as violating the natural moral law and causing barriers to happiness and union with God. There’s much to ponder […]... Read More
“Love” Isn’t Love
We are reminded by secular progressives during their pride month that “love is love.” This of course is kept vague and ambiguous as a bumper-sticker slogan, to avoid the scrutiny of reason. Without further definition, one must presume it means that sexual expression may be perverted in any way desirable as long as there is […]... Read More
