by Francis Bitterly | Aug 2, 2026 | Wisdom
Dear brother Nick, – Thank you so much for all of your wisdom – my heart is broken – we remain in Christ The final teaching Jesus at the Home of Martha and Mary 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named...
by Francis Bitterly | Jul 3, 2026 | Wisdom
Jesus returned to this theme throughout the Gospels, using different images to point to the same spiritual reality. Lose your life to find it “Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” — Gospel of Matthew...
by Francis Bitterly | Jan 1, 2026 | Wisdom
“The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.” Joseph Campbell viewed the “Dark Night of the Soul” as a crucial, often devastating, but ultimately...
by Francis Bitterly | Nov 27, 2025 | Wisdom
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. – John 12:24...
by Francis Bitterly | May 29, 2024 | Wisdom
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
