Part of the totem along the trail to South Beach, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Long Beach Unit
Archive for August, 2008
Bear Eats Fish
Posted in Photos on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
QUOTABLE
Posted in Stuff I'm reading on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We know, don’t we, what the church in North America is like. Sadly, the church has become less like a community of disciples and more like a collection of small corporations. The church has too often lost sight of the world to come and become captive to the present age. Churches that preach the cross [...]
A Spirituality of Martyrdom
Posted in Stuff I'm reading on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it (Matt 16:25).
Only if we adore something beyond ourselves will we stop adoring ourselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said as much when we wrote that we reach moral maturity on the day that we realize that we [...]
“Sin Will Never Win”
Posted in Stuff I'm reading on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives Peter the keys to the kingdom. And from the first reading, we learn that keys have always been a symbol for opening and closing, binding and loosing. Which is why the sacrament of penance is called the power of the keys.
The good thing about sin is that no person [...]
