Marriage is a Charism

Marriage is a Charism. St Paul says ‘Each has their gift one for marriage one for virginity.’ Marriage is a gift of the Spirit. Someone might be married but ate they living marriage in a charismatic way. St Paul describes charisms as ‘manifestation of the Spirit’ for...

Eucharist Adam Eve

The first expression of joy when Adam saw Eve and said ‘She is bone of my bone flesh of my flesh.’ As I was just reading this. It seems to me that there is a Marian element in the Eucharist. When Jesus sees the Eucharist. The Eucharist is taken from the rib heart of...

Dionysius and Poseidon

Today is the Feast Day of St Christopher.. As Dionysius the Greek God of wine was a type of Jesus who gives us the new wine of His Blood and the Holy Spirit.. so.. As the ancient would come to the water edge to invoke Poseidon for safe travels across the sea.. to...

Reading the Odyssey Charisms

In the Greek Epic the fact that a poor swine herder could become the king with the favor gifts of the Gods is a type of how a sinner ignorant and far from from God grace can obtain kinship in Christ and become a child of the king Christ. It is all foreshadow in the...

Charism Greek myth

About Charisms St Paul saw that God gave His Gifts right when we need them, such as Greek hero’s like Athena Hera might give a gift to Odyssey or Jason. Idea that God like the type of Greek God, would bestow the gift of the Holy Spirit at the precise moment we needed...

Reading the Odyssey St Paul Charisms

I think I have a genuine insights into Charisms, gifts of the Holy Spirit.. now St Paul created the word Gift Charisms.. it didn’t exist as a word till St Paul. Now St Paul was writing to Gentile Greeks such at Corinth.. where St Paul gives his most extensive teaching...

Ocean or Mountain?

Question of the day.. if you could go to the ocean edge in the middle of the Pacific or to top of one of the highest mountains in the world for a single day.. would you choose the Ocean trip or the Mountain trip? I think sometimes when we say we are an Ocean or a...

Water sea

Kate Chopin ‘The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the...