Father Terry's Spiritual Stuff

Become an aloe, like a cactus or aloe plant.  They grow in desert places, dry places and have the capacity to retain moisture to feed birds,...

  I live over a fault line in San Francisco.  April is Earthquake month.  Am I prepared?  Well, on the level of foodstuffs and what to turn ...

  One of the beat things about listening to someone else is that it can break the stranglehold of self-centeredness.  I find that spiritual ...

  If you write something down with a pencil on a piece of paper and then erase it, there is still some mark where the writing was.  It is cl...

  If you offer an alcoholic in recovery a drink of alcohol, they will refuse.  It is not a choice.  Alcohol will kill them.  Why?  Because t...

  Some of us like to live in “elsewhere.”  We don’t much care for the real, our real.  Elsewhere is found through fantasy, drugs and alcohol...

Today is the Anniversary of my Baptism into the Catholic Church.  It came about four weeks after I was born, and was at St. Frances of Rome ...