by Roberto | Mar 28, 2023 | Blog
“Your prophets provided you visions of whitewashed illusion; They did not lay bare your guilt, in order to restore your fortunes; they saw for you only oracles of empty deceit.” Lam 2:14 Dear brothers, One of the things I appreciate the most at Mass is...
by Roberto | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog
“Einstein’s relativity theory properly concerns the physical cosmos. But it seems to me to describe exactly the situation of the intellectual and spiritual world of our time. Relativity theory states that there are no fixed systems of reference in the...
by Roberto | Jan 20, 2023 | Blog
“The chief aim of order is to give room for good things to run wild.” G.K. Chesterton It is common today to hear atheists, agnostics, scientists, experts, religious, including Christians, speak of nature, not as creation, but as a creator, owed much fear...
by Roberto | Dec 21, 2022 | Blog
“To be courageous is to love the good more than you fear evil and suffering” Fr. Donald Calloway The root word for cour-age is heart (coeur in French). The symbol for love is often depicted as a heart, which tells us that to love means to take courage....
by Roberto | Nov 21, 2022 | Blog
“So long as we combine ceaseless and often reckless scientific speculation with rapid and often random social reform, the result must inevitably be not anarchy but ever-increasing tyranny.” G.K. Chesterton (New Witness, May 12, 1922) Brothers, One of the...
by Roberto | Oct 27, 2022 | Blog
“And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals?” Jonah 4:11 God ordered one man, one reluctant man to...
by Roberto | Sep 15, 2022 | Blog
“Where there is love, there is God.” Mother Teresa The word love is so commonly used, its use is becoming uncommon. Some love food, others sex, and others love only what others have. In Catholic tradition, those “loves” are referred to as...
by Roberto | Aug 14, 2022 | Blog
Dear brothers, “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth).” Matthew 6:24 In Luke’s account (Lk 16:13-15), it goes on...