Imagine how different our world would be if Paul’s advice to Romans, was followed by every Christian. “Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.”
Fr. Rick Spicer
August 29, 2020
If there is one passage in scripture that seems to define our Catholic faith, it would be what Jesus said to Peter in this gospel passage. “I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the nether world shall not prevail against it.” He
Fr. Rick Spicer
August 23, 2020
A bit of background to this unusual gospel: Jesus withdrew to a region outside of Israel, where he met a Canaanite woman who pleads for help. At first, he ignores her with the excuse that he was sent “only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But the mother persisted. “Lord, help me.”
Fr. Rick Spicer
August 16, 2020
To the best of our knowledge, no water exists on any other planet with the possible exception of Mars where some speculate that ice might be found beneath its red soil. For our planet, water has been plentiful from its beginning. In the Book of Genesis we are told the earth was initially covered with
Fr. Rick Spicer
August 9, 2020
When Jesus heard that his cousin, John the Baptist, had been killed, he withdrew to a deserted place. Pondering John’s brutal death, he may have struggled to understand the mystery of evil that prompted Herod to do what he did. Like John the Baptist, Jesus was put to death by evil men but meanwhile he
Fr. Rick Spicer
August 2, 2020
