Fr. Joseph
A few weeks ago I visited St. Thomas Aquinas College and met Fr. Joseph. He’s his blog…
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
A few weeks ago I visited St. Thomas Aquinas College and met Fr. Joseph. He’s his blog…
Okay, don’t watch today’s video unless you are prepared to cry. I mean it. You have been warned…
What’s the only good reason to get married? Here’s the answer from Dr. Flanagan from UnTangled…
Faith is like the gift of a musical instrument. The true value of the gift is in learning its use
– Random quotation in my prayer journal after spending a weekend with the Elm Grove community
A came across this little introductory programme concerning the Eastern Catholic Churches:
The other day I did a post in which I looked at the sequence of events in the creation narrative of Genesis. In verse two of Chapter 1, we are told that “the earth was without form and void” and I explained how God spends the rest of the chapter fixing these two problems.
He solves the problem of formlessness in the first three days by creating the domains of time, space and habitat. He then solves the problem of emptiness by then populating each of these realms with rulers: first sun, moon and stars, next fish and birds, and then finally land animals and humanity.
I compared Genesis chapter one to the building of a house, God first builds the structure of the house and then fills its rooms. However, at the end of the post I explained that God wasn’t just building a house, but a temple…

Why do I say that God was building a temple? Well, we know that other cultures at the time of Genesis’ authorship also considered the cosmos to be something of a temple in which the gods were to be worshiped, but we also find a similar strain of thought concerning the first book of the Pentateuch…