Posts by Michael Throop

We watched the highly acclaimed film Father Stu via Amazon Prime, and it is the most riveting two hours I have witnessed in a long time.

A song, a sidewalk, and a Kelly green 1956 manual-shift Ford station wagon help me appreciate Father’s Day.

There was tumult, bloodshed, hatred, family conflict, and loneliness in Christ’s time, too.

Dear Graduates: Our Blessed Mother is walking with you, today and always.

“This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Jesus’ response, basically, is “What did you expect? An echo chamber?”

Move from being a “doubter”, like the troubled Thomas, to a believer.

I find it curious, and heartening, that God should choose only a few people, those on the periphery of society, to witness events involving his Son that changed the world.

Our humanness is why Christ was born one of us, and why he died for us. All are welcome to rejoice in His Obedience, even unto death, and his rising, leading us all to new life.

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced,” said Vincent van Gogh.

Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand,