Brothers and sisters What will separate us from the love of Christ Will anguish or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or the sword No in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels

Over a number of weeks now the Liturgy has been offering readings from Romans 8 This chapter means to build on and reverse the disheartening reality of Chapter 7 highlighted in Paul famous saying I know what is right and I want what is right but I do what is wrong who will save me from th

The Fourth of July is a most appropriate time to recall a discussion St Paul had in his First Letter to the Corinthians There in a dialogue form he hears someone s saying to him Everything is lawful to me Paul s responds But I do not want anything to dominate me He is thinkin

The feastday of St Thomas the Apostle is over but there remains a consideration that is valuable for undersanding the Gospel of John in which Thomas s story occurs The Thomas story is the story that completes John s presentation of the Jesus event John 21 while inspired Scripture

Before I said my first mass an old priest gave me two great pieces of advice You know when the congregation is filled with optimists After you have given a long series of announcements at the end of Mass and then you say and finally - people take out their car keys The second was Never

The Year of St Paul began on June 28 2008 and it seems right to make note of it before it recedes in the revelries of summer beginning with Fourth of July celebrations tomorrow Prior to St Paul s conversion he persecuted the Church and was trying to destroy it Gal 1 13 Paul recognized