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Lent: Day Fourteen

Lent: Day Fourteen

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


I’m going to interpret St. Benedict’s next step to humility as:NEVER LAUGH AT, DERIDE, OR MOCK ANYONE OR ANYTHING.If you read the rule, ho..
Lent: Day Fifteen

Lent: Day Fifteen

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


The eleventh rung of humility is:SPEAK GENTLY, CALMLY, AND BRIEFLYThis makes me think of when Kevin Smith used to make films. His two returning charac..
Offending God

Offending God

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


I DARE YOU TO READ THIS!
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..
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..
A True Hero

A True Hero

A Poem by Sir Joseph


A true hero has emerged in the form a young man
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...
FAILING THE TEST: How We May "Fail" Ourselves at the Judgment

FAILING THE TEST: How We May "Fail" Ourselves at t..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Every semester I give my students a "review" packet with all the questions that will be on the Final. In essence, it’s a summary of all of my te..
Thermodynamics and the Potential Fact of God

Thermodynamics and the Potential Fact of God

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


I am neither a scientist, nor do I play one on tv
Atheists Too?

Atheists Too?

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


When Jesus says "No one comes to the Father except by me" and "I am the way, the truth, and the life," and when it is claimed that through Jesus, all ..