Today’s Prayer: June 8, 2020

Jun 8, 2020thefriarwebmasterPodcasts, Today's PrayerEven when I sin, God continues to love me, God never leaves me, I need the grace of God, Life is suffering, The friar, You warned me God

You warned me God. You still warn me. You let me know time and again how important it is to listen to you. But I do not. I turn away. I sin.

Today’s Prayer: June 5, 2020

Jun 5, 2020thefriarwebmasterPodcasts, Today's Prayerbe perfect as your heavenly father is perfect, love your enemies, Mother Teresa, pray for your persecutors, The friar, turn the other cheek, uncomfortable gospel

I remember a homily one time where the priest said something like this: “If the gospel does not make you uncomfortable at times, then perhaps you have never heard the gospel.”

Commentary: It starts with trying to understand

Jun 2, 2020thefriarwebmasterCommentary, PodcastsAttitudes, commentary, Confronting myself, I am racist, listening, racism, The friar, trying to understand, Walking together

I grew up in one of the whitest states in the United States. In fact, I believe for much of my childhood it was the whitest state in the United States. As I think back over my school days, the only person of color I remember in my school was a foreign exchange student from South Africa. Interestingly, it was in the days when South Africa still had the Apartheid system. He was colored, not black, because his ancestors came from India.

Guest Homily: Is God calling you to do ordinary things?

Mar 16, 2020thefriarwebmasterHomilies, Lent, PodcastsLent, Lent 2020, Lenten Homilies, Lenten Prayer, leper, Naaman the Syrian, ordinary things, pray, The friar

Today’s homily is given by Father Scott O’Brien, the student master for St. Dominic Priory in Saint Louis, Missouri.. I was a novice when the news first broke about the spread of HIV/AIDS; that was 35 years ago now. Some things were known about it at the time, like how it might be contracted but little else.

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