Not all the struggles and obstacles that we have to face on our life’s journey of becoming spiritual people are internal. The culture in which we live is constantly pointing in different directions and trying to tear up the road … Continue reading
Category Archives: Called To Holiness
During the past several weeks I have been sharing some thoughts about the struggles of Life’s Journey. I shared with you that anxiety about the future is one of the first struggles we face. The second struggle that we face, … Continue reading
To become a Vibrant Christians, that is persons who realize that we are called to holiness through the particular journey of life given to us, we must become aware of the obstacles that can impede our journey. One of the … Continue reading
I have been attempting in this article to provide some ideas about what it means to be a Vibrant Christian Community. I have suggested that it means that the majority of the people in the community understand that God has … Continue reading
There are many journey stories in Scripture, illumining different facets of the spiritual journey. In Genesis (32:23-33), we read that Jacob was traveling home from a foreign land where he had acquired two wives, eleven children and a large herd … Continue reading
As I have tried to express in past issues of this article, the Call to Holiness is truly a Call to Take a Journey – A Journey With God. A truly Vibrant Parish or Christian Community is one that constantly … Continue reading
In the last issue of this article, I ended my thoughts about the spiritual journey that we humans are called to make by commented on the fact that Mary, the Mother of God, also had to make such a journey. … Continue reading
The Call to Holiness can also be considered to be a call to a Spiritual Journey of Personal Relationships. By this we understand that any spiritual growth involves the development of the ability to sustain healthy relationships with others. This … Continue reading
The Call to Holiness, the Spiritual Journey that God calls us to, is a journey of personal relationships, a journey on which a person grows closer to God or further from God, depending on how he or she relates to … Continue reading
The parable of the Sower appears in all three of the Synoptic Gospels. This fact suggests that it may truly have been one of the parables actually said by Jesus, Some scholars suggest that a better name for this parable … Continue reading