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His Presence is Always Found
Reflection of the Day: There is so much humanity in God’s world. Isn’t that the story of creation? As one of the stories goes, it was God’s garden and He made us humans and put us in it. It was a neat place with lots of good things and everything in order. Then things got messed up by “apple-gate” – as I like to call it. After that things weren’t so good and humans had to live in a big bad disordered world outside the garden. God didn’t abandon us, but he made it harder to figure things out by allow things to get pretty messed up and now…
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Pass on the Power of Prayer
Abraham is Father and Patriarch to Jews, Christians & Muslims. God told our Father Abraham that he and his descendants must keep his covenant throughout the ages. I can’t speak for other ages, but our age is not doing so well. How can we, the “People of the Book”, betray our roots and our God so often in the way we discriminate and express hate and carry out violence toward those who are not of our religion? For those Christians, we best make our attitude toward Jews and Muslims a serious examination of our consciences as we enter into Holy Week. The prayers and readings of Good Friday and the…
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Thank God for the Kind People
I can figure out two reasons why Jesus annoyed the people of his time. The first is the traditional understanding. The political and religious leadership thought he was getting too popular and might usurp their respective spheres of power and authority. That’s understandable, even if not noble. But the other reason you and I can relate to. Sometimes individual who are kind, humble, giving and content can make us jealous, frustrated, and even angry? So maybe that’s why some others didn’t follow Jesus. Well, maybe in our time we should think about those kind and loving people as God’s gift to the world and to ourselves. We might learn from…
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JustLove’s Look at Youth Activism and Civic Engagement
Dr. Martin Carney, Ph.D. is a Teacher of Religious Studies at Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx. Dr. Carney – a long time participant in Pax Christi Metro New York’s annual Good Friday Way of the Cross – and Msgr. Sullivan will be talking about Fordham Prep’s decade-long participation in Pax Christi Metro New York’s Good Friday Way of the Cross, and how it encourages the youth who participate in it to reflect on contemporary social issues in light of the Passion of our Lord. Brother Tyrone Davis, Director of the Office of Black Ministries of the Archdiocese of New York, talks to Msgr. Sullivan aboout “March for Our Lives” taking…
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Do A Good Thing
Healing, feeding the hungry, teaching God’s ways, stories of Jesus that taught the important of helping others. There’s much more. Jesus’ whole ministry taught that “doing right by each other” is “doing right by God.” Fortunately, my experience is that people do want to help each other out and very often do so. Good Friday teaches us that the time and type of help we want to provide can’t always be on our terms. Sometimes it will hurt and be inconvenient. Even Jesus asked his Father to make the crucifixion go away. No could do. Neither can all the crosses of our lives go away when we help others. …
