Make Your Requests Known

When one future pastor was in his final year of seminary training, a dear old lady in his parish made a point to corral him after Sunday service. “God has much in store for you,” she said, “I’m sure of it. You pray for us. What might I pray about for you?” Humbled, he told her. The next time they met, she pulled a small reporter’s notebook from her purse, and flipped to a page with his name at the top. Reminding him of his recent requests, she asked how things were going. God had answered his prayers, and he was pleased to tell her so. “We can mark that off, then,” and she drew a line through an item. “What now?”...read more

Our God Forever ... read more

King David, the Psalmist, plead the King of Glory for a lasting measure of his grace. “Make known to me your ways, Lord; teach me your paths. Guide me by your fidelity and teach me, for you are God my savior; for you I will wait all the day long. Remember your compassion and your mercy, O Lord, for they are ages old. Remember no more the sins of my youth; remember me according to your mercy, because of your goodness, Lord. Good and upright is the Lord, therefore he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble in righteousness, and teaches the humble his way” (Psalm 25:4-9). No one typifies godly humility more fully than Jesus Christ, and St. Paul detailed that truth most clearly.. . . .read more

“Be Compassionate, for I Am Compassionate” ... read more

More than a decade before his appointment as the Librarian of Congress, Daniel Boorstin wrote a book entitled The Image. Though too often overlooked as a formative study on the subject, the author’s narrative approximates prophecy. “As never before in art, it has become easy for the great, the famous, and the cliché to be synonymous,” he wrote in 1961. “The original then somehow loses its originality. The copy is far more familiar. Indeed, it is only the copy which is really popular.” It was a common image—a coin with the likeness of Tiberius Caesar—that provided Jesus a wonderful teaching opportunity, one that separated the image of a man and “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15a).. . .read more

God, Our Refuge and Our Deliverer ... read more

“Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other.”                                                                                              

                                                                                   St. Thomas More

“True friendship can harbor no suspicion; a friend must speak to a friend as freely as to his second self.”                       

                                                                                    St. Jerome

“God is within all things, but not included by them; outside all things, but not excluded by them; above all things, but not beyond their reach.”

                                                                                    St. Gregory the Great

“God said: I have placed you in the midst of your fellows so that you may do to them what you cannot do to Me—that is, so that you may love your neighbor freely without expecting any return from him. And what you do to him, I count as done to Me.”                 

                                                                                    St. Catherine of Siena