‘You can’t have God as your Father if you don’t first have the Church as your Mother.’ This was an expression of the early Church.. we need Mary to come to Jesus. We need the...
Are we alone… in the universe
About 2 years ago I found a feather.. a feather.. But it reminded me of when I found a feather at the tomb of St Hildegard. so thinking why did I find a feather.. being a nerd,...
What is food
Fr Stefan Random Thought… as someone who has struggled with weight most of my life.. And when you look at pictures of people from the 70s and now at the beach.. most everyone was...
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...
Jesus death on the Cross and going out to eat ‘put it all on one check.’
Last night as I was sleeping an image came to me that helps explains how Jesus gives us the fruits of the Cross. Often when we go out to eat we say to the waiter ‘we want...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...