August 28, 2011 - Jesus tells Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!" As in, get in line. Who is leading who in our life with God?

August 21, 2011 - Who do you say that I am? What do you do because I am who you say that I am?

August 14, 2011 - Our Father's greatest desire is to bring the human family into the family of God. How are we frustrating this beautiful dream?

August 7, 2011 - Saint Dominic, the Patron of Order of Preachers and the Catholic Community at Stanford, was a man of steadfastness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

07/31/11 - Beginning with need is beginning with what you lack. Yet, when we see what we have and what others have is when we take the first step to being aware of our spiritual resourses. As in the Eucharist, where He takes, He blesses, He breaks, and He gives, we also should in our daily lives become aware, give thanks, and share. In the kingdom of God, no one receives and hold. Everyone receives, and gives.

24th July 2011 - All of us desire spiritual experiences. However spiritual experiences have after effects and change us. Spiritual experiences cost us much. Do we dare sell our possession to buy this pearl of great price?

17th July 2011 - Fr. Nathan shares some seeds for meditation on the parable where an enemy has mixed weeds with recently planted wheat seeds. Do we understand why God, the landowner, chooses to allow both wheat and weeds to grow together? Are we like the servants, eager to avoid blame and keen on pushing our reasonable and logical solutions, disregarding the will and wisdom of the landowner?

July 11, 2011 - Jesus told the parable of the sower. "Anyone who hears the word and heeds it will bear fruit in abundance." Do you really listen, or think you are? Ask the sower, the lover, to speak in you, because you do have ears.

3rd July 2011 - Fr. Nathan discusses how we tend to approach God with a natural fear and awe at God's greatness and power, looking for God in the distant heavens. We are reminded that although such reverence is proper to God's Infinite Glory, it is also God's preference that we seek God in simplicity and in the easy and lowly things.

June 26, 2011 - We may describe the Eucharist as many things. Today, let us focus on the fact that the Eucharist is Apostolic.