
Trip back in time reveals God’s gift of mercy for sinners like me
I left the house that Saturday morning in plenty of time to make the 30-minute drive to my class.
I left the house that Saturday morning in plenty of time to make the 30-minute drive to my class.
It’s been less than two weeks since Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix issued an Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist, but the treasure contained therein is already having an impact.
What we’ve always considered to be true and the actual truth aren’t necessarily the same thing.
That lesson was brought home to me last week when a relative sent me a document detailing the list of passengers from Ireland who set sail for America in April of 1848.
We may have grown up in the scorched desert of Arizona, but our mother made sure we five kids never forgot our Irish heritage. And it wasn’t a matter of simply wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day, either.
Why do we give up stuff for Lent? The answer is more complex than you may have imagined.
It’s Valentine’s Day weekend and at our house that can only mean one thing.