The end of our conversion is when we stand before Jesus at the pearly gates. Up until then, we are always on the conversion way. We never "have it made." We are always on guard to be our best, always at prayer to do better, always striving to overcome human weakness. The road to heaven is a road of conversion, not of perfection. Perfection is the goal of that road.
Outside the Cathedral are splashes of flower beds. In mid August, one of those beds had a purple iris growing in a clump of lemon lilies. Lemon lilies bloom in mid August. Iris bloom in May. When we m
When you move ahead on the path of conversion, you are definitely marching to a drumbeat that is greatly different from that to which the world marches. You are going to be out of step with the world,
Summer is a time for relaxing, if one can take the time, so as to embrace work with greater gusto when one returns to it. Jesus, too, took time to go off by himself and pray. Our summer vacations shou
