Archives for 2021

There is an old saying: “Excesses meet.” Too much fasting and too much eating come to the same end. Keeping too long a vigil brings the same disastrous cost as … sluggishness… Too much self-denial brings weakness and induces the same condition as carelessness. Often I have seen men who would not be snared by […]

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? During […]

As with many people in the USA, I like to think of myself as a person who responds graciously to others. My self-image of a priest may be based more on old Bing Crosby movies in which he played a priest than in the reality I experience. My behavior is certainly not as based on […]

Memés have become a favorite way to communicate on social media along with the short spicy tweet. But, that creates a problem. To reduce a complex problem to a 160-word summary almost always leads to a misrepresentation of the problem. And, that representation is always in favor of a position in which you believe and […]

I am only very slowly beginning to understand why throughout the entire Scriptures and in Holy Tradition there is a warning about how you ought to relate to other people. Though I do not agree on most things with Nietzsche, yet I am coming to heartily agree with the quote below. Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, […]