Fr. Christian Mathis | September 30, 2009
“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ”
-St. Jerome
Today we celebrate the feast day of St. Jerome, the man who is responsible for the translation of the Bible into Latin, giving Christians the version of Scriptures known as the Vulgate. The Latin Vulgate version of the Bible is arguably the most influential translation of the Scripture [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 29, 2009
Today we welcomed St. Joseph to his new home in the sanctuary of St. Thomas Parish. It is exciting to see images of the saints in our Church to remind us of our universal call to holiness.
Sometimes our protestant brothers and sisters do not understand the practice of having depictions of the saints in our [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 27, 2009
The first book review that I wrote for The Catholic Company was for a book written by Mike Aquilina. I was so impressed with his book, Signs and Mysteries, that when I saw another one of his books available for review I requested a copy. Fire of God’s Love: 120 Reflections on the Eucharist, is [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 26, 2009
Today we celebrated our annual fall festival with music, dancing, international cuisine, petting zoos (we even had a tortoise!), and then there was rain, rain, rain. When I awoke this morning I could hear the light sprinkles outside my windows and by the time most of us were eating lunch there were steady walls of [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 25, 2009
Yes, I’m still alive. One might not think so from the lack of posts here lately and I promise to work on correcting that. The combination of nine days in Central America, a week of the new pastors workshop and catching up on being away from the parish for two weeks has taken its toll [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 20, 2009
One of my friends recently mentioned the fact that between the “Sites to See” and “Blogroll” portion of this blog there is quite a bit to explore. At least for him, it is sometimes difficult to know where to begin with checking out the recommended webpages and blogsites. His comment gave me the idea of [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 19, 2009
Several of the conversations had during our NPH pilgrimage centered on some of the trips that Fr. Ron frequently makes to the United States with many of the pequeños. They make these trips to raise awareness and funds for the houses of orphans in Central America.
Fr. Ron explained to us that the pequeños earn the [...]
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