Words from St. Rita

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” T.S. Eliot wrote. Mine has been measured with coffee spoons and sugar. Early morning in our family bakery was a weak cup of coffee with several heaping spoonfuls of sugar and a substantial helping of Half & Half. That was the only way I knew to… Continue reading Black Coffee & the Gospels

Caravaggio, The Crucifixion of St. Peter Look at the face of St. Peter, bound to the cross in agony to be dangled from the heavens. Caravaggio depicts the crucifixion of St. Peter in vivid detail but as I look at his face I am unclear what Peter experienced in his final moments. His mouth is… Continue reading The Might of St. Peter

Heinrich Hofmann, Christ and the Rich Young Ruler I’ve got a large box of powdered milk, beans, flour, noodles, coconut milk, peanut butter and a many other food supplies stuffed in my closet. Our family bought a fair share of back-up supplies in preparation for this pandemic, in part fueled by the mass anxiety that… Continue reading Where Your Treasure Is

Consider how the revolutionary ideas of Aristarchus of Samos changed our understanding of the cosmos. Wait…who?! The remarkable Greek mathematician and astronomer Aristarchus of Samos lived a couple centuries before Christ and is the first natural scientist known to have proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system. Well, sometimes revolutions take a while. That… Continue reading The Center of All Things

St. Michael the Archangel, Hamburg Easter is not a wide-eyed bunny bringing you a basket of chocolate. Easter is a person, particularly a man who died in agony, who breaks through the rock wall of death and brings new light to the world. Easter comes to break open the tomb we have made of our… Continue reading Joy on the Front-lines