Fr. Christian Mathis | June 22, 2009
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Trial, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? As Scripture says: “For your sake we are being slain all the day long; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.” Yet in all this we are more than conquerors [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 21, 2009
During my time of working with “at risk” teens, one of the most frequent pieces of advice I would give to parents is to model the things you want your child to learn. Children learn much more from our actions than they ever do from our words. In my own life I think back to [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 20, 2009
Please keep in your prayers the Feist family who last night suffered the loss of two of its members, Nancy and Peter. Nancy was due to give birth to her sixth child, Peter, in September. Last night she collapsed and doctors were unable to save her or Peter. Dave and Nancy and their family have [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 19, 2009
One of the best statements on the Eucharist I have come across is this small excerpt from a Letter to “A” that is included in the book The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor. I was once, five or six years ago, taken by some friends to have dinner with Mary McCarthy and her husband, Mr. Broadwater. [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 18, 2009
This past year at St. Thomas I have celebrated many funerals for and with members of the parish. This coming Monday I will celebrate another one. Funeral liturgies are always a time to remember the presence of not only the Church on earth, but the much larger group of Christians who have gone before us. [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 16, 2009
Today was a full one without much time for blogging, but to stay with the Eucharistic theme I offer this post-communion prayer. Freely Thou has given me Thy Body for my food, O Thou Who art a fire consuming the unworthy. Consume me not, O my Creator, but instead enter into my members, my veins, [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 15, 2009
My first two years of seminary were spent with the Benedictine community in Conception, Missouri. One thing that still stands out in my mind was the ritual of gathering for the Eucharist on Sunday morning. There were a few families who drove to the Abbey for mass, but most of us who would be attending [...]
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