Fr. Bill | February 28, 2012
I will think the unthinkable, that without God — Jesus Christ and the Gospel– being placed at the center of our lives, individually as souls and together as a nation, we will not survive. The reason for all the pain and suffering in the world at the hands of men is because we reject the [...]
Fr. Bill | February 23, 2012
Imagine if it was true that you really existed in Heaven at this moment, but your body is here on earth and your mind is anchored here too, because of the fact that it’s heavily keyed in with the function of your physical body and its senses. Imagine too that your mission here is to [...]
Fr. Bill | February 21, 2012
There’s more than a few people who would get put off by how direct I am about this, but I will do it again because, well, that’s how it goes: it’s the right thing and as far as all of us are concerned, there never will be a ‘good’ time to hear it, that is, [...]
Fr. Bill | February 21, 2012
I had an interesting exchange with a friend recently, who forwarded me a link that dealt with a pastor who had lost his faith and became an atheist. He wanted to know what my thoughts were on it. You can read it here if you like, which is a short interview between the former pastor [...]
Fr. Bill | February 14, 2012
Standing in the checkout line of the grocery store, you see racks of candy and gossip magazines, playing off our insatiable appetite for junk and dirt. Even if we can’t stand the tabloids, we can’t help but to look at their headlines. We laugh to ourselves and tell ourselves the claims we read in [...]
Fr. Bill | February 9, 2012
Did you bring yourself into this world all by yourself? No, you were brought into this world by forces beyond you when the moment was just right. But then, you were existing before that moment came to be, so you were created and to tackle this one, you must bring up God. What did you [...]
Fr. Bill | February 8, 2012
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” ~Mohandas K. Gandhi~ This should feel familiar to us, and we should be quick to understand it. But we don’t readily accept it, and we’re often surprised by it. Somehow, we think this always about “other” Christians, not [...]
Fr. Bill | February 6, 2012
Lent begins officially on February 22nd this year, with Ash Wednesday. Ashes placed on one’s forehead in the shape of a cross has a number of levels of meaning, but we could say for now that on your mind should be the fact that death is a reality and you should mindful of it enough [...]
Fr. Bill | February 1, 2012
Honesty is one of the most important qualities you can develop within. You have to have it, or your life is really a fiction. A lie. A conglomeration of things you want to invent about yourself for others to see so that they will give you the attention your built-up-over-a-lifetime fictionalized personality craves. The whole [...]
