God Talk

What is it like to be in a kind of “fusion” of hearts with Jesus Christ? Life is definitely more intense, beautiful, mysterious and wondrous than ever before. It is somewhat like having a second childhood, seeing the old through new, not only more youthful but possibly ageless eyes. I seek to live each day […]

Receiving the Eucharist since my heart fusion with the Heart of Jesus has made it all the more powerful and meaningful. Christ’s real presence in Holy Communion connects with His real presence in me, strengthening my bond with the church. It is as if the heart fusion represents the vertical and the Eucharist the horizontal […]

I thank God there is a church, and I am convinced that true to His word, Jesus will make sure that nothing will ever be able to destroy the spiritual community He founded twenty centuries ago. Things with the church are, however, not as the Lord wills them to be. I do not want to […]

It is time to put some of the dots together, beginning with a scriptural summary. There were actually four major streams of prophesies in the Hebrew Bible which ultimately center on the Messiah, not the traditionally noted three. The first two: the Messiah was to be the Son of David and the Son of Man […]

Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) accomplished at great deal in her brief stay on this earth. She had a charismatic force of personality, much like St. Bernard, which could persuade others to see things her way. She moved in extraordinarily wide circles for an Italian woman in the fourteenth century. She influenced popes and wrote […]

Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1302) really did not like to talk about herself, except to indicate how unworthy she was of the many graces God lavished upon her. Her experiences of God were such that the epithet “the Great” came to be added to her name. Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207-1282/1294) is the most complicated of […]