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A Centurion’s Sunday in Jerusalem: The Story of Longinus
This article is the prequel to a trilogy that I wrote about Longinus the Centurion who according to tradition commanded the detail in charge of the crucifixion of Jesus. I find a special affinity to...
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The Story of Longinus the Centurion: A Meeting of Friends
This is another in the historical fiction series that I am writing with the Centurion Longinus, who according to tradition was the Centurion at the Cross who put his lance in the side of Jesus and who...
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The Story of Longinus the Centurion: A Visit to Death Row
This is the third chapter of a prequel to my series on Longinus the Centurion, who according to tradition was the Centurion in charge of the execution of Jesus. The Previous chapters as well as the...
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Duplicity in Jerusalem: An Official Visit and 30 Pieces of Silver
This is the final section of the prequel to my historical fiction series on Longinus the Centurion. The other chapters of the series can be found at the following links. Have a blessed Easter Triduum....
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The Long Good Friday of Longinus the Centurion
This is a re-do of my original “Long Good Friday of Longinus the Centurion., Since I first wrote that piece two years ago I have written a prequel, and like George Lucas feel the need to change and...
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The Morning After a Most Unsettling Crucifixion: The Story of Longinus the...
The horrible day was passed and a new morning greeted Longinus as he arose. The sun rising over the escarpment in the east that overlooked the Jordan River cast a warm red and yellow glow as its rays...
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New Troubles: A Missing Body an Empty Tomb and Sleeping Soldiers The Story of...
This is the third chapter of the redone second part of a trilogy that I have been writing about the Roman Centurion known as Longinus who was at the cross when Jesus was crucified. I have tried to...
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Musings on Easter Night: Holy Week Happenings, Busted Brackets a Radical Pope...
The liturgy proclaims “Alleluia! The Lord is Risen. He is risen indeed! Alleluia!” It is the triumph song of life conquering death in the Suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. This...
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Opening Day 2013…and Be a Blessing to Us
“Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.” ~Sharon Olds, This Sporting Life, 1987 It is good to have survived the last five months. The Mayans were wrong...
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Where No One Has Played Before: Deep Space Nine, Benjamin Sisko and Baseball
If there ever was a sport that can find its way into the far reaches of the galaxy in a form that we would recognize today it would be baseball. I have always love the way that the creators of Star...
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Going to the Brink: Kim Jong Un Pushes the Envelope
The young and seemingly not very smart ruler for life of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, sometimes know as North or “Yankee” Korea has been pushing the envelope of sanity lately. In fact he...
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I Have Been to the Mountain: The Assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
“And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats…or talk about the threats that were out… What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? Well I don’t know what will happen...
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Belief and Unbelief
“Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don’t have any doubts you are either kidding yourself or you are asleep. Frederick Buechner I have always found that the...
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Faith and Doubt
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without an element of despair even in thie consolation, believe only in...
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Remembering the Holocaust: The Ordinary Men of Wansee and Two Hours that...
Reblogged from Padresteve's World...Musings of a Passionate Moderate: “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready...
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Remembering the Holocaust
“For the dead and the living we must bear witness.” Ellie Wiesel Berlin, July 31st 1941 To: Gruppenfuhrer Heydrich Supplementing the task assigned to you by the decree of January 24th 1939, to solver...
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A Beautiful Day for a Ball Game
Yamaico Navarro singles in the Winning Run in the Tides 5-4 Win Let’s go, batter up! We’re taking the afternoon off. It’s a beautiful day for a ball game, a ball game today. The fans are all our to...
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North Korea on the Brink: “We’re in Deep Doo-Doo”
US and South Korean officials believe that North Korea is on the brink of firing multiple Musudun intermediate range ballistic missiles. The Musudun is an untested weapon that is believed to have a...
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Fly the Friendly Skies of PTSD: Padre Steve Takes to the Air Yet Again
“There are only two emotions in a plane, boredom and terror” Orson Welles So once again my air travel begins with an adventure, thankfully I am doing better and have learned a few things about...
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Flight Delays and Waiting in Airports: Inshallah…
Well my trip takes another turn as the delay, attributed to air traffic control gets longer. Allegedly we will get out of here about 1429, that is military time for 2:49 PM. If I get in to Newark on...
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