At the same time, we have found that Electronic Voice is a duplicate of our main website and divides the energy of our staff trying to write for two websites. We feel this is not effective stewardship regarding our time and talents and in this case two websites are not better than one. So...
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18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Twenty years ago, Marianne Wilson saw a need; thousands of people with critical illnesses were going hungry in her area of Southern California, and she just wasn’t going to stand for it. She began cooking healthy meals and delivering them to men, women and children dying from HIV/AIDS, cancer,...
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17th Sunday in Ordinary Time There is a certain fast-food company that sells hamburgers. In their advertising, they claim that their product has the ability to satisfy our cravings. In fact, several television ads depict their hamburger calling people up on the phone, ostensibly getting them to stop whatever it is they are doing...
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When and why was Sunday designated a day of rest? Before Sunday was designated as a day of rest by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century, it was already a special day in the life of Christian communities. Sunday had become a distinctive day because of its association with the day on which...
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If we truly choose to live the faith passed down to us by the apostles and their successors, then we too can expect rejection. This was the case in the early church. Those first Christians were baptized into the church and out of their culture. For them, baptism was both a...
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5th Sunday of Easter – Cycle B – 2009 Acts 9:26-31; I John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8 Jesus obviously lived in an agricultural society because of the many agricultural images he used in his parables.  He spoke of the Word of God in terms of a farmer sowing seed.  He spoke of the grain of...
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