My spiritual director sometimes makes reference to messages from the Spirit that he senses or encounters in various movies.
Last evening while watching a Hallmark movie entitled “Candles on Bay Street,” I experienced again a sense of our relationship with each other as children of God.
In this remarkable story, several times the song “You’ve got a Friend” written by Carole King in the early 70’s was sung in the movie. This song moved me in a special way.
It is easy to dismiss my experience as a sentimental moment, but I see more than the emotion of the event. I sense the Spirit conveying to me a heartfelt relationship with my fellow pilgrims.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Intelligence, Comprehension and Understanding
While driving home from Mass yesterday with Cassie my granddaughter who has just turned 9 years old, I experienced the wonder of the gifts of the Lord.
Cassie opened the conversation by asking if Catholics were Christians. I responded yes. But then I asked her why she asked the question. She said that her friend Sarah was a Christian but not a Catholic and that she did not believe in the Eucharist.
I explained to her very brief history of Catholicism, Christianity and that the belief in Eucharist was a primary belief that distinguished Catholic Christians from non-Catholic Christians.
So I summed it up by saying that Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholic.
Cassie responded with “that is like squares and rectangles because all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares!”
Cassie opened the conversation by asking if Catholics were Christians. I responded yes. But then I asked her why she asked the question. She said that her friend Sarah was a Christian but not a Catholic and that she did not believe in the Eucharist.
I explained to her very brief history of Catholicism, Christianity and that the belief in Eucharist was a primary belief that distinguished Catholic Christians from non-Catholic Christians.
So I summed it up by saying that Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholic.
Cassie responded with “that is like squares and rectangles because all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares!”
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Phychological Effect of Abortion
Yesterday I met a man who was very active in the pro-life area of anti abortion ministry. As we talked, he got around to explaining that about thirty plus years ago when was thirty years old, his wife became pregnant with her fourth child. She told him that she did not want another child and she was going to have the child aborted. He said that he told her that he thought that it was wrong but she went through with the abortion anyway.
As he was explaining his story to me, he began to weep. He said that although he had reconciled with the Lord, he was still very troubled by the killing of his unborn child. So often the pro-choice advocates say that there is not a phychological effect of abortion on the mother much less the father.
Regardless of the effects of the evil one in our world, I surely saw the presence of the Lord in this man.
As he was explaining his story to me, he began to weep. He said that although he had reconciled with the Lord, he was still very troubled by the killing of his unborn child. So often the pro-choice advocates say that there is not a phychological effect of abortion on the mother much less the father.
Regardless of the effects of the evil one in our world, I surely saw the presence of the Lord in this man.
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