Catholic. Pastoral. Trusted.
The big furry blue creature with a gray face and two prominent tusk-like teeth seems to be an unlikely sidekick to a parish priest who was awarded the prestigious Great Preacher Award by Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2004. But most of the time, wherever Father Joe Kempf preaches, his “ole buddy” Big Al goes too.
There are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. —John 21:25
The last verse of Saint John’s Gospel is rather curious. Surely the events of the life of one man—even the God-Man Jesus—could be contained in a couple of thick volumes. Unless…the story continues?
James and Kathleen McGinnis have been named as two of the 100 Most Inspiring St. Louisans by the St. Louis City NAACP at the June 2009 St. Louis City NAACP Centennial Celebration and Annual Freedom Fund Dinner. Jim and Kathy McGinnis are long-time educators, authors and activists, and co-founders...
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God’s blessings steal into life noiselessly.They are neither self- proclaiming, nor even self- announcing.Henry Ward Beecher
All I have seenteaches me to trust the Creatorfor all I have not seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank God for sleep!And, when you cannot sleep,still thank him that you live to lie awake.John Oxenham
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life,let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.William Law
If God maintains sun and planets in bright and ordered beauty,he can keep us.Frederick B. Meyer
An angel is a spiritual being, created by God without a body,for the service of Christendom and the Church.Martin Luther
Love pays attention. Love notices things.Not to notice is not to love.John Carmody
Be the living expression of God’s kindness;kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.Let no one ever come to you without feeling better and happier.Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself,but to stand at your real height against some higher nature,that will show you how small your greatness is.Phillips Brooks
God is perfect love and perfect wisdom.We do not pray in order to change his willbut to bring our wills into harmony with his.William Temple