Fr. Christian Mathis | March 29, 2011
It has taken me some time to get back to my reflections on the Second Vatican Council. Today I would like to continue the journey through the council documents by taking a look at chapter three of the document on the Church, Lumen Gentium. You might recall that this document begins not by talking about [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | March 25, 2011
This was God’s plan to change the world–He chose His followers to be the change–He chose you, and He chose me. We are the ones who will bring the good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, and stand up for justice in a fallen world. We are the revolution. We are God’s Plan [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | March 24, 2011
It was never my intent for this blog to be considered among the top internet sites for dating or abstinence, but it seems that there are those who think otherwise. I received an email yesterday informing me that topdatingsites.com had linked to a recent post here on fasting and abstinence as part of their article [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | March 21, 2011
These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:14) Yesterday I had the privilege of concelebrating the divine liturgy with Fr. Richard Armstrong at St. Thomas Ukrainian Catholic Mission (both my parish and theirs refer to [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | March 19, 2011
Go to liturgical services regularly. Maxim #11 One of the first challenges that many of my brother seminarians and I faced when we first began our studies was learning how to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. For most of us, it was a brand new form of prayer that we had to learn. The [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | March 18, 2011
There are two pictures that have been on the wall of my office since my first trip to El Salvador in 2001. The first is of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the second is of the four American churchwomen who were killed in 1980, the same year Romero was assassinated. They are there as a reminder [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | March 11, 2011
I am happy to be spending almost a week this Lent with these and other smiling faces in El Salvador. My friend John and I will be heading out tomorrow to introduce some new folks to NPH as well as to learn more about the country. As a result, I will not be writing any [...]
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