So you’ve decided that your spiritual life needs a boost and you want to find ways to get closer to God in your day to day life. One part of our life that gets overlooked when we are trying to make these kinds of changes is how we use the “in-between time” in our...
Lent begins in ashes and ends in the Resurrection Lent is a call. It is a calling to every man, woman and child who would bear the name Christian. Lent is the time of year where, as a church, we put lip service aside, humble ourselves and submit to the disciplines of...
The Blessed Virgin is full of surprises. After almost twenty years as a Catholic, I thought I knew the mysteries of the rosary. Beads or book in hand, I would walk the familiar path from the annunciation of the angel Gabriel, through the hill country to Bethlehem and...
From the immortal spirits of Ainur, to the race of Woses, Middle Earth is richly peopled. Although each of the principle races, Elves, Hobbits, Men, Dwarves, Ents and Orcs interact heavily in Tolkien’s tales, the various peoples of Middle Earth have a distinctiveness...
The Old Testament of the Bible walks us through the lives of some of the most interesting men and women in history. Its pages are filled with giants, dragons, Pharaohs and and demons. Wars were fought, civilizations rose and fell and humanity was nearly wiped off the...
