Work: A Foretaste of Heaven
by Marcus Grodi Jesus told several stories about a father with two sons, maybe because they so clearly illustrate the Two Ways of the spiritual life (cf, Ps 1). In one such story, a father asks his...
View ArticleSometimes Why is not Why
- by Marcus Grodi Admittedly, my interest in devoting too much of my time and energy to this “farm” has waxed and wained. I fully realize that I’m not a natural farmer, and not having grown up on a...
View Article“Verses I Never Saw” Introduction: There But For the Grace of God Go I – by...
This well-known proverbial saying is how I must begin as I consider sharing the Scriptures that God has used to open my very hard heart and stubborn mind. Whenever I see someone lost in sin,...
View ArticleVerses I Never Saw #I: My Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Years, Mark 16:16 – by Marcus...
He who believes and is baptized will be saved. It wasn’t until I was a cognitive seven years old that the soul-altering waters of baptism were sprinkled on my brown-haired head. My earliest years had...
View ArticleBy Grace We Have Been Saved
by Marcus Grodi It’s truly amazing, and disconcerting, how sincere brothers and sisters in Christ, who take the inspiration of Scripture so seriously, can yet so drastically disagree over even the...
View ArticleInch by Inch, Row by Row: A reflection on the Beatitudes as a Staircase of...
- by Marcus Grodi *This material is taken from a chapter in Marcus Grodi’s upcoming book Life From Our Land. Looking at the present beauty of our fairly large, or, should I say, ambitious, garden,...
View ArticleParable of the Game
When we play board games, to what extent do the successes and failures we attain in the playing of a game affect the rest of our lives? What if a highly respected host invited you to spend an evening...
View ArticleThe Illogical Logic of Sola Scriptura
There is a television commercial, selling a certain satellite service, that uses a tongue-in-cheek form of illogical chain logic. The writers presume that we understand not to take their logic...
View ArticleCHNetwork Community Responds: What Scripture Passages Make More Sense to You...
Many of you are familiar with our Deep in Scripture podcast, where Marcus Grodi interviews various converts to Catholicism about passages from the Bible that they see differently now that they’re...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Journey Home Episodes of 2016
This September saw the beginning of the 20th season of EWTN’s The Journey Home program. Hosted by the President and Founder of the Coming Home Network Marcus Grodi and produced in the CHNetwork Studio,...
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