Tag: discipleship
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Are You a Great Pretender?
Last night I watched the series premiere of The Grinder, a new comedy on Fox with Rob Lowe and Fred Savage. It was hilarious. Rob Lowe plays a popular actor who played a lawyer on television, while his brother, Fred Savage, is actually a practicing lawyer, but one that isn’t very good. Of course, the…
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Driving Lessons
I gave my 14 year-old twins their first driving lesson this weekend. When we got home my wife expressed her disapproval. Apparently, even on private property it is illegal to operate a car without a driver’s license. Further, they’re too young and we were in our nice car, which could have ended in an expensive…
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So Who’s Really Crazy Here!?!
I am sure I drive my kids crazy! When they fail to do, over and over again, that which I have asked them to do, they continue to say, “I’m sorry,” to which I say, “No you’re not!” They look at me with that look that says, “How can you not accept my apology. Who…
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Stewardship of the Mind
When I was in high school I attended a weekly youth meeting where we would discuss the role of God in our lives and support one another in the journey of faith. In addition to other activities, each week we would have to share about what we did that week in terms of studying our faith.…
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Everyday Stewardship / Answering the Question of “Why?”
He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God. Therefore, put…
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Fr. McGivney, My Father, & Me
I. The vision of one man can have a tremendous impact on the world. Yesterday, we celebrated the birthday of Fr. Michael J. McGivney, a Irish-American priest who founded the Knights of Columbus in 1882 with a small group of parishioners in his Connecticut parish. The idea was to band men together with the mission of…
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Under a Tree
Elijah was afraid and fled for his life, going to Beer-sheba of Judah. He left his servant there and went a day’s journey into the wilderness, until he came to a solitary broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: “Enough, LORD! Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”…
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Everyday Stewardship / Striving for Maturity
Therefore, let us leave behind the basic teaching about Christ and advance to maturity, without laying the foundation all over again: repentance from dead works and faith in God, instruction about baptisms* and laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And we shall do this, if only God permits. Hebrews 6:1-3…
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Give As The Giver Gives
Give As The Giver Gives “As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace” (1 Pt 4:10). The stretch of Ordinary Time after Easter is time that offers many celebrations. The month of May warms up with First Communions and Mother’s Day. June and…
Tracy Earl Welliver 