Adult Formation
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What can backpacking teach us about the Transfiguration? Feast of the Transfiguration 2017
If you’ve ever done some serious backpacking in the mountains, then perhaps you know this difficult truth. It is tougher coming down the mountains than going up.
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When was the last time the Kingdom found you? And you found the Kingdom? 17th Sunday A
As many of you know, I had the leisure to be on vacation in Colorado this month with two of my classmates. It was a golfing vacation, and we played a lot of golf. There was a moment…
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How do you deal with your imperfections? 16th Sun. A
Even experienced farmers could not tell the difference in its early stages between wheat and darnel, a weed that also grew in the holy land.
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Is it about the sower, the seed, the soil… or something else. 15th Sunday A 17
It is usual to ‘hear’ this parable in terms of the soil that the seed falls upon. And it is certainly fruitful to spend time praying about that. Am I good soil? Am I resistant soil?
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How welcoming are you? 13th Sun. A 2017
A friend’s daughter was 4 years old – and she was learning letters. So, when she came home from shopping with mom, she noticed there were letters on the mat in front of their door.
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Do you have a favorite gospel hymn? (bonus points if it is based on TODAY’s gospel. 12th Sunday Ordinary Time A
In the spring of 1905, Civilla Martin and her husband were vacationing in upstate New York, when they met and struck up a friendship with a local couple, the Doolittles.