Another Perspective

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was once asked by a critic: “What are you trying to do? Why all this talk about atoms and molecules when you are speaking about Jesus Christ?”

You will read this column the week after Easter. We all will have gone through Holy Week, which began with Palm Sunday, also called Passion Sunday.

Deacon Hooper answers question about Marian devotion

Karen Carmody, her husband Chris and four children, are stationed in Aguada, Puerto Rico.  Missionaries live on not many dollars a month, so they don’t have much money to distribute to beggars.  At the same time, however, they often come upon individuals who, like Lazarus in Jesus’ parable of the neglected beggar, have no one to help them.  The story of how they brought Christ’s love to Nelson the beggar is one of inspired almsgiving.