December 24th, 2016 - New picture hanging inside church building..."God With Us" written about San Francisco skyline with Golden Gate Bridge.

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There is one paradigm that we return to again and again, and that is the constant faithfulness of God.

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After the recent posts on the nature of faith, and what it means to believe in God, I have one other question:

Does God believe in us?

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Galatians 3:28 In the church I attend there is black, white, yellow, rich, poor, people from almost every country in the world. Is your church like this?

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I apologize for missing a few days with the Lenten readings. Exams and all have meant little sleep. Today's reading comes from St. Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians:

Now I beseech you all to obey the word of righteousness, and to endure with all the endurance which you also saw before your eyes, not only in the blessed Ignatius, and Zosimus, ( Read more... )

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of the First Martyrs of Rome. This coincides with yesterday's Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul. In both cases we are recognizing the great persecution of Christians begun under Emperor Nero, who reportedly burned the city of Rome for no other reason than caprice (he wanted to see how Troy was burned, so he ( Read more... )

It's often been said that "Money Is the root of all evil" or even " Money Corrupts". There are many negative associations with money and few good ones, from a Christian perspective. One thing is for certain, in this economy, we've all been thinking a lot about money, how we use it, how much we have, how much we need, how much we can give or are ( Read more... )

Pope's Address Upon Visiting Mosque

"Ideological Manipulation of Religion ... Is the Real Catalyst for Tension and Division"

AMMAN, Jordan, MAY 9, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Here is the text of the discourse Benedict XVI gave today after he visited the King Hussein bin Talal Mosque and the adjacent Hashemite Museum and subsequently met with Muslim ( Read more... )