Nothing Positive About Being Negative

In his book, The Road Less Traveled, author M.Scott Peck begins the entire book with the sentence, “Life is difficult.”No doubt about that, and yet, choosing to have a positive outlook on the difficulties of life is often much easier than we think. In brief, we could...

Soul Food Sundays

Food is good. God could have made us like cows who just eat hay, but that would be pretty boring and hay doesn’t really go well with a good Chianti or Chardonnay. He knew what he was doing, and, more amazing, he himself becomes at every mass, The Meal of our faith, or...

How’s Your Mood?

What puts you in a bad mood? For some of us it can mean being hungry, sick, or having to get out of bed while not being a “morning person.” Bad moods tend to be infectious with others and yet once a person is in the throws of a bad mood he/ she often...

Perfection

Back in the 1950s a woman was angry with the Catholic Church and after mass one Sunday approached Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and yelled at him in the narthex. She looked at him with a red face and said, “Im leaving to find a perfect Church!” He apparently retorted,...