Nov 13, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
All creation throbs with an upward surge of spiritual impulses, seeking to find their way to the divine source. The universal yearning for the nearness to God can be heard time to time from snatches from the symphony of creation. Song is the articulation of the...
Oct 15, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
Just one more day… I recently watched the end of the 2001 movie, Artificial Intelligence, which I haven’t seen its release. The time is the 22nd century. Monica and Henry have a child, Martin, who has an incurable disease so he is placed in...
Sep 18, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
In celebration of Succoth, the Festival of Tabernacles, the Sukkah is built. This holiday takes place in the fall at the end of the Jewish High Holidays. It is a temporary structure and must be built with that in mind. The walls are usually made of wood. The...
Sep 6, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
September is the month of new beginnings. Back to work, back to school. Starting over. In Judaism, September brings The Jewish New Year, and this is the year 5773. Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, the anniversary of creation, is the beginning of the Days of...
Sep 3, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
There are some who go through life without the need for God, for symbols, rituals, or traditions and suggest to others that we each make our own way through life’s passages. I listened to a woman on the radio recalling the suffering she experienced with the death of a...
Sep 2, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini died Friday, August 31, 2012. He was 85. If it were not for his obituary I would never have known of this remarkable man. He was a Jesuit and former archbishop of the archdiocese of Milan. He was also rare in the Catholic world...
