FGG-156 Your Holy Family

As I sat at mass this morning, I remembered a wonderful, older couple named The Holy’s.  Now that’s a tough name to live up to, but they do it quite …

Remembering My Christmas Train

“Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in …

Occupational Hazards

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter …

Persistence in Prayer

“Then he told them a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared …

FGG-149 Humility, the Lost Virtue

What ever happened to humility?  Once valued in our culture, humility just isn’t practiced at all.  Instead, we have a self-centered, chest-thumping, braggadocios, pat yourself on the back generation with …