The Magic of Love

How is it that in our world we have nicely secured or perhaps stashed away plenty for few but the majority has next to nothing?
How is it that there is so much growth for billionaires and millionaires when throughout the world many thrive on less than a dollar a day?
How is it that there is [...]

Many people for centuries have gone to distance places to encounter and experience faith. I know many people who struggle with the question “what is faith?”
Trying to come up with a definitive explanation of faith was not at all difficult in the deafening silence of the morning. I was forced to listen. Faith is simple [...]

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 Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied.  My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings.  If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its clichés, it would be time to call in the undertaker.  Thomas [...]

What does it mean to welcome the stranger? Do we welcome the strangers in our midst daily?
Do we invite people to share meals with our family, Do we open our houses up to guests, Do we share our cars with someone at work who may need a ride? Do we welcome new people in our [...]

Many contemporary Christians are disconnected from community and people present in our world.
It is sad that we pass people that are hungry, lonely, naked or sick while going to our sanctuaries. We sometimes pass people almost like the Levite in the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10: 25-37Luke 10: 25-37English: World English Bible - WEB25 Behold, a certain lawyer stood [...]

“Gracias a Dios…Gracias a Dios”.  These are the words that lifted off the lips of the elderly, homebound Salvadoran people as we visited door to door, dropping off rations of rice and bread that would carry them through another few days of life.  I could not help but stop and think of the true gifts [...]

For sixteen years of my life I have had the fortune of living in an small, affluent suburb outside of Boston, Massachusetts. I was given the opportunity to a Catholic school education where we sometimes discussed the issues of poverty and injustice in our world—however I passed it off as something only a few people [...]