Fr. Christian Mathis | December 31, 2010
The coming of a new year is always an exciting time in that we all get the chance to begin all over again and to hope and dream of better things for the coming year. Even when the past year has been good, there is alway hope for better things to come. Here are ten [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 30, 2010
Today we celebrate the sixth day of Christmas. One of the things that used to bug me was to see just how quickly all signs of Christmas disappeared on December 26. Just two days ago, for example, I noticed that the store where I was shopping had already begun their marketing for Valentine’s Day. More [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 29, 2010
Say the Lord’s Prayer several times a day. (Maxim #4) When you are praying, do not behave like the hypocrites who love to stand and pray in synagogues or on street corners in order to be noticed. I give you my word, they are already repaid. Whenever you pray, go to your room, close the [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 28, 2010
As a child I recall seeing this picture of the massacre of the Holy Innocents while scanning the pages of our family Bible. I clearly remember the shock of seeing babies killed in such a brutal fashion and the revulsion I felt knowing how inhumane the scene was that I had happened upon. Every time [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 27, 2010
This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked upon and our hands have touched, we speak of the word of life. This life became visible; we have seen and bear witness to it, and we proclaim [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 25, 2010
A family record of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah whose mother was Tamar. Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram. [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 24, 2010
Have a keepable rule of prayer that you do by discipline. The third of Fr. Thomas Hopko’s 55 Maxims is once again both simple and difficult. The two words that strike me in this maxim are keepable and discipline. If we pick a rule for ourselves that we are not able to keep, we often [...]
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