Beggar

               The research is crystal-clear about that it does to kids who don't have a dad who is both present and engaged.  Kids with an involved dad (not perfect, but involved) tend to do much better in life.  They finish high school, go to college, have higher self-esteem, succeed better at tests, are less likely to be depressed, have less anxiety, and the list goes on.      Dr. Meg Meeker, M.D., a well-known and respected psychologist in the field of healthy families, tells us that dads need to see themselves through their kids eyes.  "Our kids are saying, consciously or not, 'Dad, you are critical for my development.  You are key to my future and my hope.  I need you'."  Most dads don't know that, and don't feel that.       Due in part to negative cultural attitudes, 45% of white and Latino homes in the U.S. have no dad at home, and 70% of African-American homes have non...

From a Work by St. Thomas Aquinas ( Opusculum 57, in festo Corporis Christi, lect. 1-4 )      It was the will of God's only-begotten Son that people should share in his divinity.   So he assumed our human nature.  He did so in order that, by becoming human, he might make us gods.        In addition, when he took our flesh, he dedicated all of its substance to our salvation.  He offered his human body to God the Father on the altar of the cross.  It was a sacrifice for our reconciliation [with the Father].  He shed his blood for our ransom and purification, so that we might be redeemed from our wretched state of bondage, and cleansed from all sin.       To ensure that the memory of so great a gift would abide with us forever, he left his body as food and his blood as drink, for the faithful to consume in the form of bread and wine.      Oh precious and wonderful b...

The Holy Trinity Ever since Jesus, we Christians have taught, held to, and even died for the truth that God is three persons in one God.  He's both a unity and a Trinity. What's so important about it? Because it's central to the love that we're called to.  Consider this: We know that God is love, and true love isn't basically for oneself, but for another person.  We also know that before God created the universe, he had existed for all eternity.  So if God were only a unity, he would have existed for an infinity without anyone to love. But he is love and couldn't not love. So there must have eternally been more than one person before anything was created.  But only one God existed. God has revealed to us that, in fact, there have eternally been three persons in the one God.    And since God is love, and created us to love him back and love each other. So I suggest that, in honor of the Most Holy Trinity, that we:  Do...