On what day did Jesus die and rise again? In the Creed we say that “on the third day [Jesus] rose again,” but if Jesus died on a Friday and rose on a Sunday, isn’t that just two days? In this video I explain the math behind the Resurrection and why St. Paul and even…
On Spirituality
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
“What does ‘abandon’ mean?” my daughter whispered to me during Palm Sunday Mass. A more popular translation of Psalm 22, which Jesus quotes on the cross, is “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” which he says in Aramaic, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (Mark 15:13). “Maybe even Jesus felt alone and scared to…
Become What You Pretend to Be
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters I find this truth to work in two ways, both good and bad. If you pretend to be someone successful when you are just starting out and work hard to turn that dream into a reality,…
The Protesters at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress
As the more than 12,000 youth and 18,000 adults walk into the Anaheim Convention Center for the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress each year, they must pass a man shouting in protest of the Catholic Church. He scolds those who pass by with insults so shocking that I often ask myself how it is even…
Marcus Aurelius and Memento Mori
For thou must consider the things of the world, not as a loose independent number, consisting merely of necessary events; but as a discreet connection of things orderly and harmoniously disposed. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations I find great comfort in reading the Stoic Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. I didn’t realize how much I have been bothered by…
