Category: Faith
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Embodied Experience: An Incarnational Ministry of Presence
As a hospital Chaplain I have encountered patients and families facing end-of-life care decisions on a number of occasions. One of my earliest experiences stands out as formative, partly because my mom had recently passed away while under home hospice care. We can never know precisely what others are going…
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Fishers of Men: Reeling in Grief
In my work as a Chaplain, while facilitating various grief support groups over the years, I have been privileged to come alongside folks grieving the loss of a loved one. They come to share their experience, but mostly to normalize what they are going through – and to figure out…
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Our Inescapable God
If you are looking to add to your bookshelf or just on the hunt for a good read, these are some excellent books for sharing our faith and could be a wonderful resource for evangelizing.
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Gratitude: An Antidote To Indifference
“Mankind has never been so rich, yet it reaches astounding heights of moral and spiritual destitution because of the poverty of our interpersonal relationships and the globalization of indifference.” (Robert Cardinal Sarah) And there it is, the real pandemic afflicting our world, moral relativism, and its accompanying indifference.
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The Trinity: A Three-fold Experience of Divine Love
“When my wife passed away, it was like a part of me went missing. I could still feel her presence, see her in all those things that reminded me of her, but nothing could fill the hole her dying left in me.” The hospice patient shared his memories that still…
