Tagged: ministry
Patricia Cullen-Sanford wins SYCFS book
Congratulations to Patricia-Cullen-Sanford, the winner of an autographed copy of my upcoming book, Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story. We held the drawing at the 2018 Dallas Ministry Conference (DMC). It draws 8,000 to 10,000 clergy, religious and ministers from parishes and schools in the Diocese of Dallas and the North Texas area. Earlier I wrote...
Got Joy? Latest JOYAlive.net posts 6-10-16
St. Thomas Aquinas for Everyone – Book review featured on CatholicWritersGuild.org. “St. Thomas is the greatest doctor of the Church,” author Dave Palmer said, “Young children can be taught his basic philosophy, as I do with my 11- and 7-year olds.” Openness to God’s Will is theme of Catholic Writers LIVE – 2016 Catholic Writers Conference...
Friar’s Corner: Miracles accompanied Christ’s ministry
1 Kings 17:17-24; Ps 30:2,4-6, 11-13; Galatians 1:11-19; Luke 7:11-17 We now make a great leap in our Sunday worship services. We prepared for Easter with 40 days of prayer, fasting and good works. We remembered the passion and death of Jesus. With great solemnity we celebrated Christ’s glorious resurrection from the dead. Then we...
Friar’s Corner: Jesus wanted leadership focused on serving others
Wisdom 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54:3-5, 6-8; James 3:16 to 4:3; Mark 9:30-37 Dear Holy Spirit, please fill us with our wisdom. As I stated with Mark’s gospel section last week, we are at a turning point. Jesus has finished his “glorious” ministry of healing countless numbers of people, feeding thousands and having leftovers and teaching....
His grace is enough, part 2
(Continued from part one yesterday.) Yesterday I described how the Lord worked in an unexpected way in a frustrating situation as I began a new ministry one Sunday. Here’s what happened on Monday: In my prayer time the next day, I cried out to the Lord to help me cope with the emotional struggles that...
What to do when highs become lows?
What struggles and sadness are you experiencing? What victories and joys are you celebrating? Sometimes we hesitate to give our all to enjoy the highs because we fear a low will burst the bubble of joy. We know what’s to come. Eventually, our highs will suddenly or gradually take us down. What good are these...