I admit, I have been caught in a mental frenzy of Christmas and life these past couple of weeks and though I really wanted to start Advent off right, I have already failed. By that, I mean that I haven’t fully focused myself yet on what this season means. But I do seem to find…
I have very strong but scattered memories of Thanksgiving. I remember being at my grandmothers when I was very small before my parents divorced. I remember being about eight or nine and adding members of of a new family to our already scrunched table. This meant a kids table and my sister eating on the…
Yesterday, in his address to the USCCB, Cardinal Dolan quoted G.K. Chesterton as a call to redirect in a sense where the conference has been focussing. “The premier answer to the question ‘What’s wrong with the world?’ is not politics, the economy, secularism, sectarianism, globalization or global warming … none of these, as significant as…
“At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned, you have revealed them to the childlike.” Matthew 11:25My daughter just came in from playing with her best friend next door. She was sitting…
“First of all, then, I ask that supplication, prayers, petitions be offered for everyone for kings and for all in authority that we may lead a quiet tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our saviour,” 1 Timothy 2:1-3Time to move on and do your part in goodness…
“For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” James 2:26 “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear this O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,…
“Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think on these things. Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me. Then the God of…
I have been watching the news all last evening and today because as we understood it, Sandy the Superstorm was suppose to blow threw our area. I am amazed that it has taken the turn it has and amazed at the devastation it has caused. I am happy that we seem to have been spared. But I…
http://www.facebook.com/#!/FrJamesMartinPlease click the link to take you to a post from Fr. Martin’s FB page. As most know, we are all bracing for Sandy here in the northeast…or as I really prefer to call it, Frankenstorm. (A hearty thankyou for the creator of that name!) But here is a post that reminds us how the…
On a service trip to Kentucky when I was in college we met a gentleman in the back woods (mind you this was in the late 1980’s) who owned a mule named Samson. After all the work was done at his house he was sizing up a couple of my male friends trying to determine…