Tags : humility

Lent Day Sixteen

Lent Day Sixteen

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


The last step to humility, according to St. Benedict is to be humble in everything action.The twelfth degree of humility is, when a monk is not only h..
Lent: Day Seventeen--Even if God Doesn't Exist, God IS Real

Lent: Day Seventeen--Even if God Doesn't Exist, Go..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Every once in a while I run across an atheist who decides he is going to show my the error of my ways and the level of my delusion. A rational, educat..
Lent: Day Eighteen–I’m No Judas! I’m So Much Worse...

Lent: Day Eighteen–I’m No Judas! I’m So Much..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


When I was still in college, I had a dream that I was sent back into time to the time of Jesus. In the dream, my job was to make sure that Jesus was c..
Lent: Day Nineteen

Lent: Day Nineteen

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Jesus said to his disciples:“Don’t assume that I have come to sabotage Moses’ set of rules or the prophets’ teachings. I haven..
Lent: Day Twenty-One

Lent: Day Twenty-One

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


A biblical scholar heard them debating and approached them. When he saw how well Jesus responded to the clergy, he asked Jesus, “Which commandme..
Lent: Day Twenty-Two

Lent: Day Twenty-Two

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Then Jesus told this story to those who look down on everybody else, while being convinced that they themselves are hot stuff. “Once upon a time..
Lent: Day Twenty-Three

Lent: Day Twenty-Three

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Tax-collectors and people with notoriously bad reputations flocked around Jesus so that they could hear him speak. But the lay-ministers and bibli..
Lent: Day Twenty-Four

Lent: Day Twenty-Four

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Cain sacrificed his brother to his jealousy and sin, and that blood never stopped accusing him, declaring his guilt; God sacrificed His Son for us..
hello ladys

hello ladys

A Poem by poetical#1


an odd poem with an pecuiluar humor
Jesuit 101--Jesuit Spirituality

Jesuit 101--Jesuit Spirituality

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


We have a Jesuit pope now, so a lot of people are probably trying to learn what that means.
Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


The reign of King David was coming to an end. To put it plainly he was old. He was definitely tired. The first half of his life was spent building a k..
God is Love

God is Love

A Poem by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


could be a poem; could be a sermon; could be a passing thought...
When Bad Things Happen

When Bad Things Happen

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Written in the morning; Tragedy in Boston in the afternoon...
The Kingdom of God is Here -- Right Here, Right Now!

The Kingdom of God is Here -- Right Here, Right No..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


The Kingdom of God is not something new. It is something old. It is the original purpose for the earth. The Kingdom of God is the way the earth is des..
Blind Bartimaeus and a Vision of Sainthood.

Blind Bartimaeus and a Vision of Sainthood.

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


This is actually, for lack of a better term, a description of a vision.
poem: Good Medicine

poem: Good Medicine

A Chapter by Marie Anzalone


your home, my home, everyone's home
Seeking

Seeking

A Poem by Renée Dupree


The life of a faithful in fifteen lines.
False Prophets and the Face in the Mirror

False Prophets and the Face in the Mirror

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Watch out for false prophets! They’re hungry wolves disguised as harmless sheep. You’ll be able to tell them from real prophets by the sor..
Spiritual Tax-Collectors -- The Sick Leading the Sick

Spiritual Tax-Collectors -- The Sick Leading the S..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


As Jesus left from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting in a tax-collecting office. Jesus said to him, “Be my student!” And Matthew g..
Show, Don't Tell

Show, Don't Tell

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Maybe at Confirmation, or at Conversion, or at sometime in Sunday School or Youth Group, experienced Christians should be giving all new or budding Ch..