The Road To Kingdom Come

Oh Blessed Mother Mary, my Queen, my Advocate, St. John the Evangelist has revealed much about you by recounting the story of the wedding feast of Cana. You, your son, Our Lord,  and his disciples were invited guests at this celebration. During this most joyous occassion a problem arose. The hosts had run out of [...]

This afternoon I stopped into my parish church to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. It was about 1:45 in the afternoon. From the vestibule I could see that the church was dark and likely empty. As I entered the back of the church I looked around and, indeed, there was no one there. [...]

The other day I was driving to an appointment and I was listening to Fresh Air, a talk show on NPR. The guest was a poet named Mary Karr. I was only half-listening but I got a sense of a pretty down-to-earth person with a fairly blunt manner. This personality seemed a welcome contrast to my self-constructed [...]

Well, the final tally is in and the verdict is…SURVIVAL…again!
This astonishing sequence of “cliff-hangers” and dramatic rescue continues. I will be able to make my bill payments and it appears that the coming month may be covered with some revenue arriving later this month that is incremental. This month I had actually called the company [...]

Well, the 1st of the month is here and I’ll know this weekend what the relationship is between my bills and my bank account. If my mental calculations are correct I may, once again, by the grace of God, make it through. And, once again, it was money that came out of nowhere that is [...]