Spirituality

Office For Victims Of Crime Awards Funds To Support Victims Of Mass Shooting At Tree Of Life Synagogue

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DOJ News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime, a division of the Office of Justice Programs has announced a $3,863,606 Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program grant to assist victims of the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn.

Oct. 27, 2018, 11 people were killed and seven others, including five police officers, were injured in a shooting while Shabbat morning services were being held.

In total, 31 people in the building at the time of the shooting were directly impacted by this crime and hundreds more, including family Read More

Fr. Glenn: Happy Mothers’ Day!

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By Fr. Glenn Jones

A very happy and blessed Mothers’ Day to all of you moms/grandmothers out there! A rather tough Mothers’ Day for you this year, I fear, as it’s likely that many of you are separated from children/grandchildren not only by miles, but in an abundance of caution over this COVID situation we’re stuck in. Like I’ve often seen on Facebook from older ladies over the last few weeks: “Call grandmothers away from their grandchildren … because we are NOT okay!!”  Ah … the joy of grandparents—to spoil the little ones and to bask in their love. (“Grandchildren are the crown of the aged…” Proverbs Read More

Fr. Glenn: In For The Long Game

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By Fr. Glenn Jones

As luck would have it, my little window faces east, giving wonderful views of the Sandia Mountains as the sun is setting … basting them with an evening “watermelon” reddish tint from which they purportedly derive their Spanish name … the latest beauty beheld in a lifetime of visual wonders. Sunsets over Shiprock, dawn on the ocean, Maryland trees shimmering with a thousand fireflies on a spring evening, snowfall in the Los Alamos canyons … the night sky over a totally-darkened landscape—something we count ourselves fortunate to continue to be able to find in New Mexico. (“…the Read More

Community Invited To Celebrate Mother’s Day Online At Freedom Church Los Alamos

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Freedom Church News:

The community is invited to celebrate Mother’s Day online at Freedom Church Los Alamos.

“We made it super easy to join Freedom online for Mother’s Day at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 10,” Pastor Mike Brake said. “Just simply go to: https://www.facebook.com/freedomla.church/live, then click ‘GET REMINDER’ (*actual post will be available Monday, May 4), share the post, and get ready for a fun and highly interactive experience for the entire family!”

JOIN US THIS SUNDAY (May 3rd):
11:00am – Freedom Worship Service (Facebook LIVE)
https://www.facebook.com/freedomla.church/live Read More

Fr. Glenn: The Time Machine

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By Fr. Glenn Jones

I’ve become rather fond of the trails at Petroglyph National Monument on the edge of Albuquerque since leaving the beauty of the forests and canyons of Los Alamos and vicinity. The juxtaposition of temporal images at that monument becomes an object of contemplation as people make a circuit (or two, or three) on the trail.

The now eerily-silent extinct volcanoes to the west erupted about 200,000 years ago, pouring forth the molten lava now frozen into the blackened cliffs which blanket the sandy terrain. Over millennia the hills eroded, the valley deepened. Fast-forward to Read More

Calvary Chapel Hosting Drive-In Church Sunday Mornings

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Senior Pastor Pat Kestell of Calvary Chapel preaching to his congregation Sunday morning at the Drive-in church in the parking lot of the soccer fields just around the corner from the church building at 580 North Mesa Road. Courtesy/CCC

Senior Pastor Pat Kestell of Calvary Chapel preaching to his congregation Sunday morning at the Drive-in church in the parking lot of the soccer fields on North Mesa Road. Courtesy/CCC

Calvary Chapel  News:

Calvary Chapel Pastor Pat Kestell read the front of his tee shirt, “Don’t Go To Church” and added, “Go to the soccer field!”

The back of the tee shirt reads, Read More

Fr. Glenn: Limiting Omnipotence

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By Fr. Glenn Jones

Ah … humanity’s hubris … our refusal to believe that there may be things beyond human intellect … a byproduct, perhaps, of being unexcelled by any other (known) creature. Certainly our human capacity has yet to reach its limits, but limited it must be. Like computer memory, our own “memory” and computing capacity is finite—even collectively. Just as cattle are incapable of higher-level mathematics (other than “cow-culus”—yuk, yuk), there is a point in which our minds will simply hit a wall. Like a juggler, we’ll only be able to keep so many balls in the air at once.

Encouraging Read More