THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for Saturday after Ash Wednesday, February 21st, 2015
Liturgical texts here
IF you really stop to think about it, to really absorb what just happened in today’s Gospel, it should revolutionize your life.
pain
The Gospel of Suffering
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for April 18th, 2014
Good Friday
Liturgical texts here
YOU may have noticed in several writings, lately, the theme of “springs of living water” flowing from within the soul of a believer. Most dramatic is the ‘promise’ of a coming “Blessing” that I wrote about this week in The Convergence and the Blessing.
But as we meditate upon the Cross today, I want to speak of one more wellspring of living water, one that even now can flow from within to irrigate the souls of others. I am speaking of suffering.
Why Does the River Turn?
Photographers in Staffordshire
WHY is God letting me suffer in this way? Why are there so many obstacles to happiness and growing in holiness? Why does life have to be so painful? It feels as though I go from valley to valley (even though I know there are peaks in between). Why, God?