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The Last Judgement , Michelangelo  [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales,  Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel   Matthew 25:31-46 ( English Standard Version Anglicised: India) Jesus said to his disciples:   “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.   Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.   And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.   Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.   For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,   I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was

Scientific discoveries haven't threatened my faith. I don't see how they could, since I think that reality and truth exist. And that they're real. In other words, I think I'm not a figment of your imagination and that we live in the same universe. We see it from different angles, since no two people occupy exactly the same slice of space-time. Our metaphorical points of view may not match, either. Here's what started me thinking about science, religion, and making sense.... More at A Catholic Citizen in America .

  Those ungrateful lepers!   How could you be healed by Jesus himself and not even bother to thank him? Today’s reading (Gospel of Luke, 17) gives the account of 10 lepers who were healed by Jesus and only one of them returned to Jesus “glorifying God in a loud voice” and fell at his feet. Was he the only one who noticed he was healed?   Seems like the others might have noticed that they were cleansed as well.   Were they just not grateful, or did they not realize it was Jesus who healed them? When Jesus first entered their village, the lepers all went out to him and stood at a distance saying, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!”   Seems highly unlikely they didn’t notice they were healed, to say nothing of the fact that it was Jesus who healed them. Naturally, the leper was a Samaritan, which is like a poke in the eye for anyone following the account, because the Samaritans were not exactly well-liked.   Kind of a story of the so-called bad guy doing good. Anyway, since the

November 11 is Veterans Day. It's also called Armistice Day, Poppy Day and Remembrance Day. The Armistice Day Moniker made sense in 1919, a year after Ferdinand Foch signed the Armistice of Compiègne. A year without appalling body counts was reason to celebrate. So was the Treaty of Versailles, at least for folks who blamed Germany for the war. 1 I'll be talking about that, among other things. It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Prohibition, Propriety and Good Intentions Crashes, Dust and Passing the Buck Events and Principles War and Preferences Valuing Human Life More at A Catholic Citizen in America .

  I saw a television commercial the other day.   As is often the case, I have no idea what they were advertising.   I would think good advertising would lead you to remember the product, but for people like me, we get caught up in other things—the people, the background, the slogans, etc. Well, in this particular commercial it was the slogan . . . “Find your breaking point and then break it.” A couple of things ran through my mind. First, if I am at my breaking point, isn’t the point that I can’t go any further?   But then, my follow-up thought was the one I am sure they were going for. Go beyond what you think you can do.   This definitely works for exercise.   When your brain tells you that you are done because (most of the time) you are just bored, you really can go longer, farther or faster. So what about life?   Does “Find your breaking point and then break it” work for life in general? It’s a bad motto for workaholics because it will make them push themselves far