The Jesus Connection

Without me you can do nothing. –John 15:5–             Some years ago, my friend Father Frans Berkhout and I were in an airport on our way home from a vacation.  We were in a long line of passengers waiting to have our luggage scanned before boarding our plane.  Passengers were

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So Many Rules!

I fondly recall the first time I was invited to have dinner at the home of Kevin Damitz and his family.  Kevin is the Director of Religious Education at Saint Thomas More parish here in Allentown, and he and his wife Susie are blessed with eight happy, well-adjusted children.  As

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Sweet Revenge

Pray for those who persecute and calumniate you. –Matthew 5:44– I love fairy tales, and by far the very best author of fairy tales is George MacDonald.  In his wonderful story, The Day Boy and the Night Girl, an evil witch named Watho mercilessly torments a young hunter named Photogen

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Sprayed or Dyed?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.  You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth.  Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing. –Matthew

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