Third Sunday of Lent: Total Trust in God
Date: Monday, Mar. 28, 2011Friar: Br. Albert Haugen, OPBody: We trust only conditionally. We trust experts only if they can provide proof, we trust friends and family only if we don’t believe...
View ArticleFaith Grows on You
Date: Tuesday, Apr. 05, 2011Friar: Br. James Dominic Rooney, OPBody: For everyone, there is a time in life when we don't believe in God. Belief grows on us. It does not often begin with a clarity of...
View ArticleTheology on Deck: God and Baseball
Date: Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2012Friar: Br. Patrick Hyde, OPSelect Blog Series: Theology on Deck Body: "[Baseball] reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again." It would seem that baseball...
View ArticleFrustration and Faith
Date: Friday, Jun. 29, 2012Friar: Br. Luke Barder, OPBody: On June 26th, Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times (NYT), wrote an op-ed piece entitled "The Rottweiler’s Rottweiler"...
View ArticleWhat Motivates You?
Date: Sunday, Sep. 16, 2012Friar: Br. Jude McPeak, OPBody: Can we earn salvation? Do our works really matter? In this preaching during vespers Br. Jude discusses the age old question of faith versus...
View ArticleWisdom is Darkness
Date: Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012Friar: Br. Raphael Christianson, OPBody: Only God can provide what we need for our own fulfillment. Wisdom is relinquishing control of ourselves to God and stepping into...
View ArticleDivine Science
Date: Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012Friar: Br. Raphael Christianson, OPBody: Upon arriving back at the priory from my Ancient Philosophy class, I was greeted by the delicious aroma of bratwursts and...
View ArticleThe Beginning and the End of Our Lives
Date: Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012Friar: Br. Luke Barder, OPBody: The Solemnity of Christ the King stands as a moment of clarity that, when all is said and done, God remains and reigns. This truth is the...
View ArticleAnswering the Call
Date: Sunday, Mar. 03, 2013Friar: Br. Peter Damian Marie Harris, OPBody: Answering God's call can be a dangerous thing.
View ArticleAmen
Date: Monday, Mar. 11, 2013Friar: Br. Luke Barder, OPBody: Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe. (Jn 4:48)How often do we wish that God would just make himself clearly...
View ArticleNo Shame in Being Faithful
Date: Saturday, Mar. 23, 2013Friar: Br. Samuel Hakeem, OPBody: God does not ask us to be successful; He asks us to be faithful. His plan is much larger than our personal successes and failures
View ArticleTOD: The All Saints Team
Date: Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2013Friar: Br. Patrick Hyde, OPSelect Blog Series: Theology on Deck Body: In 2003, I traded Albert Pujols for Roy Oswalt. Worst fantasy trade I ever made.Oswalt wasn't...
View ArticleFocus on God
Date: Sunday, Sep. 29, 2013Friar: Br. Drew Anderson, OPBody: To compete well for the faith we need to have a focus, and that focus should always be on Christ.
View ArticleBelieving in Fulfillment
Date: Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013Friar: Br. Lorenzo Laorden, OPBody: Amidst warfare Isaiah prophecies to King Ahaz that a sign will come from God, a child to be born named Emmanuel. As we seek the...
View ArticleTrusting in God to Save You
Date: Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014Friar: Br. Wesley Dessonville, OP
View ArticleFaith and Science: Can we talk?
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014Friar: Br. Brian John Zuelke, OPBody: The Ken Ham / Bill Nye debate has been getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere over the last week or so. So many have commented...
View ArticleMystery of a Call
Date: Saturday, Mar. 15, 2014Friar: Br. Lorenzo Laorden, OPBody: The father of our faith, Abraham, is called forth from his home, family, and previous life. This new journey that he embarks on is...
View ArticleFaith Working Through Love
Date: Monday, Apr. 21, 2014Friar: Br. Francis José Orozco, OPBody:
View ArticleEaster Dreaming
Date: Saturday, Apr. 26, 2014Friar: Br. Isaac Anderson, OPBody: Just like my first year of teaching in Mississippi, the early Christians were filled with dreams and hopes. This Easter season, may we...
View ArticleSearching for God Indirectly.
Date: Friday, May. 02, 2014Friar: Br. Isaac Anderson, OPBody: In the Prima Pars of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas tries to explain God, but he does so in a very reasonable way, I think. One of his...
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