Naked: A Lenten Reflection

March 12, 2012March 12, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Death, Ego, Faith, Lent, Life, Religon actions, adam, Adams, baptism, blood, Catholics, children, christ, church, coach, confession, creation, creations, creatures, cross, Death, devil, domain, dominion, downfall, Earth, Eden, expose, flesh, fruit, garden, gardens, gate, gates, Genesis, guardianship, heaven, himself, human, imperfections, leafs, Lenten, Lies, Life, Lord, money, news, Once, paradise, parents, Paul, payment, peace, perfection, priest, protection, reaction, redemption, reflection, resurrection, sacrament, salvation, Scandal, session, soul, Sposite, tree, trees, trough, truth, Where, wife, woman, world

Image via Wikipedia 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?” … Continue reading Naked: A Lenten Reflection

Into your Arms, A Lenten Reflection

February 27, 2012February 27, 2012 Paul Sposite Called by God, Catholic, church, Death, Faith, Freedom, History, Lent, Prayer, Religon, Salvation acceptance, actions, adam, Amen, arms, calvary, choice, compassion, compliance, daisy, Death, Devine, dictatorship, didn, divine, downfall, father, feet, Fiat, freedom, freewill, fruit, garden, gift, gospel, great, greatest, himself, human, Into, Jesus, kingdom, Lenten, lessons, letter, Life, LIMBS, Lord, Luke, moment, mother, nature, parables, path, person, Peter, pride, reflection, road, salvation, sins, Sometimes, spirit, Sure, teachings, Temple, Through, times, tree, utterance, word, words

Today many people try to make Jesus out to be this hippy type of person who spoke softly and walked around with a smile on his face and a daisy in his hands. You know they type, the “Jesus Loves You” type. Sure, yes I know that Jesus loves me and I know that Jesus … Continue reading Into your Arms, A Lenten Reflection

Love becoming Loving

April 27, 2010October 6, 2010 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Conservative Catholics, Death, Ego, Faith, Liberal Catholics, Life, social justice, Works abel, Abraham, Abrahams, action, actions, altar, Amazon, angel, animals, articles, BibleGateway, Both, Cain, Catholics, Chosen, christ, christian, Common, concept, Could, creation, depth, descendants, description, devil, dialogue, difference, dilemma, donkey, Earth, ends, enemies, energy, father, Fist, food, Friendship, fruit, Genesis, glorification, glory, heaven, help, Here, himself, human, image, intentions, International, Isaac, items, Jesus, John, justice, kids, knowledge, lamb, Later, lessons, Life, Lord, love, Luke, Moriah, mountain, mountains, Nations, needs, Offer, offerings, Once, pain, Paul, people, persecution, Peter, portions, possession, Prayerbook, preservation, provide, Psalm, rebellion, region, results, rights, Sacrifice, salvation, scripture, Second, Self, servants, STATIC, staticyouth, stay, stones, Suck, Take, Testament, thicket, Third, times, Uncommon, unrest, verb, version, wood, word, words, world, Zion

Image via Wikipedia I am sure as Catholics you have heard the phrase “Offer it up” as in offer up all your pain and suffering to Jesus. I know I have heard it and to me it often sounds like “Suck it up” a phrase we often times tell our kids when they get hut … Continue reading Love becoming Loving

Just on the inside of the door to my soul

April 17, 2010 Paul Sposite Faith, Forgiveness, Improvement, Life accident, adam, articles, BibleGateway, Capital, Catholic, Catholicism, christ, cobwebs, construction, conversion, Corinthians, creation, door, Earth, environment, expressway, fact, fruit, hour, hours, image, Jesus, Just, liberal, Lies, Life, Lighthouse, Lord, message, miles, miracle, month, music, parents, path, Paul, perfection, player, power, Prayer, prayers, pride, priest, Radio, rights, Savior, school, Seuss, Seven, sins, soul, spirit, stereo, talks, tears, theme, thousands, three, times, tree, truth, Victory, Wikipedia, wisdom

Image via Wikipedia I just spent the last few days out of town. I love to travel, but mostly when I travel, I travel out of the country, but this time it was only to a different state. Nothing exciting, just 3 hours away from my home. But this trip seemed at times to be … Continue reading Just on the inside of the door to my soul

Just on the inside of the door to my soul

April 17, 2010 Paul Sposite Catholic, church, Education, Faith, Life, Prayer, selfhelp accident, adam, articles, BibleGateway, Capital, Catholic, Catholicism, christ, cobwebs, construction, conversion, Corinthians, creation, door, Earth, environment, expressway, fact, fruit, hour, hours, image, Jesus, Just, liberal, Lies, Life, Lighthouse, Lord, message, miles, miracle, month, music, parents, path, Paul, perfection, player, power, Prayer, prayers, pride, priest, Radio, rights, Savior, school, Seuss, Seven, sins, soul, spirit, stereo, talks, tears, theme, thousands, three, times, tree, truth, Victory, wisdom

I Thirst

March 29, 2010October 6, 2010 Paul Sposite Called by God, Catholic, church, Death, Easter, Eucharist, Faith, Forgiveness, Friendship, Lent, Life, Prayer actions, articles, BibleGateway, bread, celebration, Christians, completion, Corinthians, cups, custom, Death, depth, desires, Easter, essence, Except, exception, Faith, freedom, friends, fruit, gift, glass, heart, heritage, himself, History, info, Israelites, Jesus, Jewish, Jews, John, Judas, kingdom, KISS, lamb, Last, Later, Life, lips, Lord, love, Luke, mass, meal, moment, Moses, Once, Pascal, passion, Passover, Paul, praise, prayers, preparations, reference, remembrance, requirement, rights, Sacrifice, Sacrificial, salvation, scripture, Seven, souls, statement, Supper, Take, Thirst, Twelve, Upon, vine, words

“I Thirst” Jesus spoke these worlds from the cross, but do you think Jesus really mean that he wanted a drink? In his hour of need to do think he was thinking about a nice cold glass of wine? I think not. The simple phrase holds more meaning than volumes of books, Jesus used the … Continue reading I Thirst

Sin is…

March 19, 2010October 6, 2010 Paul Sposite Ego, Faith, Friendship, Life, selfhelp adam, adultery, Against, article, aspects, athletes, Augustine, BibleGateway, consumers, contacts, contempt, contradiction, ego, Emotion, father, foods, fruit, Galatians, Galatians 5:22-23, Glutens, horde, idolatry, knowledge, Lenten, Life, Look, love, moments, morsel, movie, nature, oneself, patience, Paul, peace, pride, relationship, rights, saint, satisfaction, Self, Solutions, spirit, spouse, tree, world

St. Augustine said sin was “Love of oneself, even to contempt of God.” Basically St. Augustine said sin is EGO. To love oneself above all else even God. We can trace this back to our first parents, Adam and Eve. They loved themselves above God when they ate from the tree of knowledge. They discovered … Continue reading Sin is…

Pride

May 11, 2009 Paul Sposite Change, Control, Faith, Improvement, Life, Self actions, adam, basis, Careful, destruction, ego, Emotion, emotions, ends, fruit, Life, moments, Paul, pride, spectrum, subject, times, topic, woman

Pride is a very strong emotion, one that has driven people to extremes. We have witnessed the pride of a man (or a woman) bring them down in a blaze of fire, and we have seen pride rebuild a man (or a woman) from the deepest despair life can offer. Why is this, what makes … Continue reading Pride

Are you a fig tree?

September 29, 2008 Paul Sposite Faith, Life, selfhelp fig tree, fruit, Jesus, mathew

The story of Jesus and the fig tree has always been one that has eluded me. Sure it’s a simple story, one where Jesus condemns a tree for no fruit, but how does that apply to me? We are all called to bear the fruit of our faith, and yet if we do not we … Continue reading Are you a fig tree?

Can I serve?

September 4, 2008 Paul Sposite Faith, Life, selfhelp adam, adam & eve, adam and eve, church, community, cultivate, eve, evil, fruit, garden creation, God, Grace, harvest, money, Mother Teresa, Mother Theresa, ourselves, Pope John Paul II, serpent, servant, service, sex, tempting, tv

Can I serve others, self and God? It seems like a lot of work, trying to serve everyone, ourselves and God. But truly it’s not, we make it a lot of work, but that’s just our nature. We do things the hard way. We serve others or self first then God. We may think we … Continue reading Can I serve?

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Naked: A Lenten Reflection

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Just on the inside of the door to my soul

Just on the inside of the door to my soul

I Thirst

Sin is…

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Can I serve?

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