If you ask the Orthodox they will say the Latins deviated from the truth, especially in the matter of the filioque clause in the Nicene Creed, and are to blame for the split in 1054, and now only Orthodoxy has the original True Faith - and, they are complete without the Latins. If you ask the Latins, they will say the Patriarch of Constantinople refused to recognize Rome's authority over them in doctrine, practice, and jurisdiction, and therefore excommunicated themselv

Love and humility are two sides of the same coin - and it is humility that gives birth to love according to the Fathers. So, everything good begins when, with the grace we are given, we make ourselves very, very small. Jesus is the express image of His Father, so when He says, "Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart." he is really saying learn from US, for WE are gentle and humble of heart. With all the grand names, thunder, flash and dazzle used to descri

In August of 2009 , we celebrated Our Lady Of Guadalupe at Jobing.Com with thousands of those who love her - something like 25,000 I think. Bishop Olmsted preached a wonderful homily in which he used a teaching of Swiss Theologian Hans Urs Von Balthazar. People can be attracted to God, the latter teaches, through the desire for holiness, or through a love for truth, or by His beauty, or by all three. The Mother of God, of course shines with all three, in the likeness of

(This series speaks to the most important things I have learned, but in no special order.) Who am I and why am I here ? This is the IDENTITY / MISSION question that I believe must define us more than anything else. Since I am a hypostasis (person), and I am created in the image of God's triune hypostases, who I am is all wrapped up in the Divine. We are absolutely unique - one of a kind. Rene Girard, the brilliant Catholic philosopher ( and definitely one of a kind )