The readings from this Sundays liturgy are a bit unique given that they present an undeniably unified theme. This theme is a fairly straight-forward theme that we see often sprinkled throughout the liturgy. If one is unclean, we need only to reach out to God and He will make us clean again. Nonetheless, the idea does deserve a bit more analysis. I ( Read more... )

Today's readings have one overwhelming theme, and this theme can be summarized in one word: steadfastness. In the first reading, we are called to be steadfast in loyalty to Christ. In the second, we are given example of steadfastness to the Lord in the personage of John the Baptist. The call to be steadfast in faith is culminated in the statement “ ( Read more... )

Let me preface by saying, I will not be planning my life, but I do feel it is time for me to come up with a longterm life strategy. I need goals (and strategies to achieve them). Again, while I am avoiding the fault of planning my life out, I do feel I could use some loosely set deadlines as encouragement ( Read more... )

During my four years of study at Saint Anselm College, I took a number of philosophy classes as prescribed by the school's curriculum. During that time, a lot of philosophy jargon was thrown around and like the other students, I quickly had to adapt to using the appropriate terminology. Among the lingo thrown around among philosophy students and ( Read more... )

What is it about falling in love that appeals so much to people? In the past 24 hours, I have received notice of two wedding engagements. I still don't completely understand the appeal. I think I did once, but my notion of love was, in my mind, a bit jaded, so my perspective was also jaded as a result. Am I missing something? I hope I am since the ( Read more... )

It seems inevitable that those things we fear most are often the things we most desperately require in our lives, as if just living day-to-day wasn't hard enough ( Read more... )

It's early in the morning, but it is too warm to sleep, so I feel I should just write. I went for a walk yesterday evening (closer to yesterday morning), and I pondered what impact imbalance has on our ability to make reasonable decisions, especially those that are long-lasting and life-impacting. Over the course of about an hour, I realized that ( Read more... )

I recently put to words the difficulty that I have always experienced with bipolar disorder. I admit, I've had it easy. I don't tend to deal with irrationality as a result of mania (I consider myself very lucky in this respect), and while I do find my social interactions modestly stigmatized, this is not true in any way that is indicative of poor ( Read more... )

I will be honest... this is going to be extremely melancholy in nature. I am convinced that happiness on any level will never hit me. Just when something good happens in my life, something undermines that events ability to make me happy ( Read more... )

It is a rare happening that something small changes the course of your life (or at least how you approach it) completely. Without getting into too much detail, I have been shown that I've been unhappy lately, not because of the circumstances that were imposed upon me by whatever force, be it fate or something else, God perhaps, but rather because ( Read more... )