St Clement of Rome Catholic Church

I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear the word, love, I am immediately drawn to words that convey an action; for you English majors, verbs! In his poem, These I Can Promise, Mark Twain relates that love, if we allow it, provides us with an anchor to weather the ups-and-downs of our earthly lives. I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;I cannot promise you an easy pathwayThat leads away from change or growing old.But I…

At least once a year, we need to venture into the infinitude of God and to explore it rather than shy away from such impossibility. We wonder about this lure of the infinite that makes us feel so very small, so embarrassingly inept and yet so loved by the ultimate, most perfect Being, our Triune God from whom our very existence directly depends. As our faith grows over time, we were taught, correctly so, that we cannot probe God’s mystery. However,…

Even if it is incorrect because the earth is spherical, instinctively we look up in the sky whenever we think of heaven, and we look down into the bowels of the earth whenever we think of hell.  As always, the starting point should be the fundamental fact that we are living in Christ and with Christ as one, inseparable entity: Jesus the Head and we the members of the Body of Christ, i.e., the Church. So, the Ascension into heaven…

Growing up, I remember having a keen interest in real estate shows. These many years later, I think they interested me because as the hosts moved from town-to-town, neighborhood-to-neighborhood, and house-to-house, they always left me with a question: “When it is my turn to purchase a house and sign a mortgage, just what sort of house will I choose to live in?” This past week, as I’ve reflected upon the readings for this Sixth Sunday of Easter, the topic of…