February 2024

“We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.   Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God.” (2 Corinthians 1:8-9) Dear Friends – Many of us have experienced the above words of Saint Paul in some manner or another; when a burden has entered our life that …

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September 2019

“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men…  Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing.  My brothers, this should not be.”  (James 3:9) Dear Friends – We live in a time when the rhetoric of everyday life in every class of society has gone beyond vulgar to downright nasty evil.  It is this progressive way of life that disregards religious principals, where …

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