Blog Posts containing "Fr. Paul"

I am starting an additional publication each week that is designed to help you understand the Meditations in a more "Godly" way rather than the more typical "Worldly" way. I have named these the "Bottom Line" meditations. The current meditations will continue to be published on Tuesday and these new "Bottom Line" meditations will be published in the same blog the day before, on Monday.  Read more

The Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross  Read more

Rational Thinking does not know what spiritual sin or death is. Spiritual Understanding knows separation from God is Sin leading to spiritual death.  Read more

What do we do with the words of Jesus about Moses? Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. So must the Son of Man be lifted up so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life. Some see this as Jesus being lifted up on the cross. The serpent represents sin. Jesus took on our sin on the cross to save us. The problem here, is trying to fit one's theology into the scripture rather than have the scripture define our theology.  Read more

When we think of things rationally with our head, the physical is real and the spiritual is symbolic. When we think of things spiritually with our heart, the spiritual is real and the rational becomes symbolic. The challenge is to realize, at certain times, the physical and the spiritual are both real.  Read more

Take time to wonder what difference it makes if you understand life's events with rational understanding, out of the Presence, or with spiritual understanding, in God's Presence.  Read more

Why did Jesus tell this story among so many others He could have told? Remember, all of the Gospel Scripture is what others saw Jesus do or say. This is the only Scripture where Jesus tells us what He did. After all, He and Satan were the only ones there in the Wilderness.  Read more

Spiritual understanding does not need sites, or exercises or pilgrimages to find the Joy of the Presence. Suddenly a cloud covered them all. When the cloud was gone there was only Jesus. That is all we need! That is all we have! His Presence is the unconditional and inclusive grace of God.  Read more

Our God is not a loveless power, nor a powerless love. Our God is the Power that is in Love. God loves us too much to leave us where we are.  Read more

Twenty one of the worst reason for leaving the Church and twenty one of the best reasons for staying in is about understanding the Gospel of Grace. We need to practice grace wherever we are. It is not easy to practice grace when we are not abiding the Presence of Christ.  Read more