Blessed is the Kingdom

Seeking The Kingdom In All Things

Sabbath Sunday: Shame Versus the Spirit

| June 27, 2010

Today’s Sabbath post focuses on the Holy Spirit. You can find it here. Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an older post from your blog that is near and dear to your heart. Make sure to leave your name [...]

Love Is Patient

| June 25, 2010

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, [...]

He must increase, I must decrease

| June 24, 2010

Today we celebrate the Birth of John the Baptist. This time of year the days begin to shorten until our celebration of the Birth of Christ.  I have always found it intriguing that the Church chose to place the celebration of Christ’s birth and his cousin John in such a way that this statement of [...]

Welcome Gabriel!

| June 21, 2010

I would like to introduce the newest member of my family, Gabriel. He was born early yesterday morning. Here he is with his dad and older sister. I suppose you can’t get a better Father’s Day gift than this one!

Sabbath Sunday: Fire and Clowns

| June 20, 2010

Today’s Sabbath Sunday post is from the early days of my time as pastor. They are still accurate metaphors for the job. You can see the post here. Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an older post from your blog [...]

Snapshots of NPH

| June 18, 2010

NPH 2010 from Christian Mathis on Vimeo. It has been a busy couple of weeks of visiting NPH El Salvador, celebrating anniversaries and catching up on work. Here is a video with a few highlights of our recent trip to El Salvador. Enjoy!

Sabbath Sunday: Take this heart….

| June 13, 2010

Later this week I will celebrate mass in the parish to commemorate 10 years of priesthood. Here is a post from last year’s anniversary. Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an older post from your blog that is near [...]