My Opinion – Your Vote – America’s Future 2020

My Opinion – Your Vote – America’s Future 2020

February 23, 2020

In case you haven’t noticed, we are in a big year for Texas and national politics – it’s election season. Here are some questions to ponder:   How can I best know for whom to vote?  As a Catholic, are there some voting guidelines we can follow?  What authority do Church leaders have regarding politics and voting? Here’s another question...

Tim Von Dohlen

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The Silent Witness of Martyrs speaks volumes about what really matters, what opens our human hearts to true joy

The Silent Witness Of Martyrs Speaks Volumes About What Really Matters, What Opens Our Human Hearts To True Joy

February 18, 2020

The names of the Franciscan friars Berard of Carbio, Otho, Peter, Accursius and Adjutus, are not as familiar as that of Francis of Assisi, who said that they had become the prototypes of what he called the Friars Minor. After his own failed mission to convert the Muslims of Egypt during the Fifth Crusade in 1219, he sent them on a...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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God Often Comes to us in Obscurity, but will we recognize him?

God Often Comes To Us In Obscurity, But Will We Recognize Him?

February 13, 2020

Luke the Evangelist is the patron saint of artists because he paints pictures with words. In describing the scene of old Simeon in the Temple encountering Jesus, Luke wrote that he “took him up in his arms” (Luke 2:28). That word picture of an old man holding a forty-day-old baby, reminds one of the 1490 painting by the master Domenico...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Super Bowl, Nike and the Song of Saints

Super Bowl, Nike And The Song Of Saints

February 4, 2020

The Feast of the Presentation recalls the old man Simeon chanting thanks for having lived to see the Messiah. His “Nunc Dimittis”—“Let thy servant depart in peace”—is part of the Church’s evening prayers. In 542 in Constantinople, the Emperor Justinian placed it into the Eastern Liturgy.  This year the Feast fell on Super Bowl Sunday. Human nature instinctively finds entertainment...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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The Remarkable Power of Silence

The Remarkable Power Of Silence

January 27, 2020

Precisely one year ago in the Italian town of Cremona, there was an imposed silence by order of the local government for eight hours a day, six days of the week for five straight weeks. The purpose was to allow the pristine recording by highly technical equipment of sounds played on the 1700 Antonio Stradivari “Stauffer” cello, the 1727 Antonio...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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LOOKING AHEAD – Be Positive, Take Risks, Take Action

Looking Ahead – Be Positive, Take Risks, Take Action

January 26, 2020

I still believe in New Year’s Resolutions. There are those who say don’t worry about New Year’s Resolutions because you don’t keep them anyway. My view is (1) even if you do not keep them they have caused you to think about where you need improvement in your life, and (2) whatever positive outcome occurs you are better off than...

Tim Von Dohlen

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Book Review: Four Trailblazers Who Achieved Their Potential While Changing the Misguided Silicon Valley “Boys Club”​ Culture

Book Review: Four Trailblazers Who Achieved Their Potential While Changing The Misguided Silicon Valley “boys Club”​ Culture

January 20, 2020

While I suspect that Julian Guthrie, author of Alpha Girls: The women who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime, intended to show how four women “broke through” the “glass ceiling” in elite Silicon Valley venture firms and disrupted its “boys network,” I found the value of this book for me to be its...

Thomas M. Loarie

(CEO, Bryologyx)

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Savor the Mystery and Wonder of He Who is the Light of the World

Savor The Mystery And Wonder Of He Who Is The Light Of The World

January 20, 2020

I knew an elderly Scotswoman who read the Bible each night by the light of a candle. It had become a kind of ritual, for everyone needs a rite, including those reared in the stark Calvinist kind of worship of her homeland Kirk. While she did all of her other reading by electric light, the lamp was turned off and...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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True Wisdom and Historic Perspective in this Current Age

True Wisdom And Historic Perspective In This Current Age

January 14, 2020

Prophets proclaim the truth, and they predict the future only in a derivative sense of cautioning about the consequences of denying the truth. Thus, the Church distinguishes between holy prophesying and sinful fortune-telling. There is a “psychic” near our rectory, who will tell your future for $10, but you have to ring the bell first, and I should think that...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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BOOK REVIEW: The Warning – An Amazing Story of Danger and Hope Written by an Amazing Woman Who Took the Path Less Traveled

Book Review: The Warning – An Amazing Story Of Danger And Hope Written By An Amazing Woman Who Took The Path Less Traveled

January 7, 2020

Christine Watkins is a remarkable woman who has become one of today’s most important Catholic authors. “The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience” is her seventh book and is a top bestseller in Mysticism and Catholic Theology. Her primary interest is spiritual transformation, which is rooted in her own transformation, a story which she tells in her...

Thomas M. Loarie

(CEO, Bryologyx)

View Articles Thomas M. Loarie is a popular host of The Mentors Radio Show, the founder and CEO of BryoLogyx Inc. (BryoLogyx.com), and a seasoned corporate...

" Thomas Loarie is CEO of Bryologyx, a radio host of The Mentors Radio Show, and the former, seasoned and pioneering CEO of life science... "

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Christians must always be tourists in this earthly realm

Christians Must Always Be Tourists In This Earthly Realm

January 6, 2020

Who the “Wise Men” were is a recurring question for inventive debate, but the point is that these sophisticated scholars were from “a foreign country.” Here in Manhattan, tourists can be annoying when they stop suddenly to look at a novel sight. But they also do us the favor of noticing what we take for granted. Those Magi from a...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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The search for true wisdom, an honest man

The Search For True Wisdom, An Honest Man

December 21, 2019

I have long been of the opinion that preachers should avoid allusions to the painting “The Light of the World” by William Holman Hunt. This is not because it is inferior in any way. It is a tour de force of an artist’s craft and a prime example of the Pre-Raphaelite school that he began around 1848 with John Everett...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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The Magic of Christmas

The Magic Of Christmas

December 16, 2019

Christmas is my favorite holiday and season of the year. Music adds so much to the magic of Christmas. We know that the first Christmas was the miracle of Christ’s birth to the Virgin Mary for the salvation of souls – God’s gift to the whole world of His only son Jesus Christ. Music lifts a person’s spirits and brings...

Tim Von Dohlen

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Gaudete! Rejoice!

Gaudete! Rejoice!

December 16, 2019

Gaudete!—Rejoice!—is the name for the Third Sunday of Advent. The rubrics say the Advent penances and discipline are somewhat mitigated on this day. Gaudete Sunday is a respite, rather like one of those “film trailers” that give a tantalizing glimpse of what is to come. Even so, the sonorous hymns and rose colors of Gaudete Sunday are awkward vaudeville rather...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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On Letting the Light Shine

On Letting The Light Shine

December 11, 2019

As a rather observant child, I made a mental note of the fact that my maternal grandmother would ask me to “make a light” instead of asking me to switch it on. When she was a child, no one switched lights on.  At night, light was not had without effort, not in her English town nor in most places yet.  She...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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A story of gratitude and faith

A Story Of Gratitude And Faith

December 3, 2019

I am writing this note almost exactly one year, to the minute, since one of the most wonderful and powerful moments in my life.  A year ago, I was in Maryland at a hotel located along one of the many bays in the region.  After a client event, I had an extra day to write before heading home.  I decided...

Patrick Lencioni

(President, The Table Group)

Patrick Lencioni is the founder and president of The Table Group, and a prolific author of best-selling books on business management, particularly in relation to team...

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Advent’s Four Themes: A fool-proof remedy for superficiality

Advent’s Four Themes: A Fool-proof Remedy For Superficiality

November 30, 2019

Given the many theatres that are or have been within walking distance of our church on 34th Street, it is not possible to count the number of times stage curtains have come down on a final act. One block away from us is the theatre built by Oscar Hammerstein, to compete with the old Metropolitan Opera House up on Broadway...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Christ the King

Christ The King

November 24, 2019

If from time to time you have a sense that all things held dear in both Church and State seem to be collapsing, you might find a comrade in the Irish poet William Butler Yeats: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Fascinating History: Our Founding Fathers and Catholics

Fascinating History: Our Founding Fathers And Catholics

November 18, 2019

Most of our Founding Fathers were not deeply informed about Catholicism, but they appreciated moral integrity when they saw it. When John Dubois, eventually the first resident Bishop of New York, fled the French Revolution, he lived for a while in the home of James Monroe. Patrick Henry taught him English, and Thomas Jefferson arranged for him to say Mass in...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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How A Vision Can Become A Reality

How A Vision Can Become A Reality

November 14, 2019

In my last article we looked at forming and accomplishing your vision, more on that later, and not worrying about being a people-pleaser. This month we look at someone whose actions demonstrate she cares more about the truth and doing what is right rather than worrying about what someone will think or say about her actions. I am referring to...

Tim Von Dohlen

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