Good Food

            Recently, a friend took me and another friend to one of my favorite local eateries, namely The Hummus House on 15th and Chew, right here in Allentown.  It was late in the afternoon, and the three of us were the only customers in the five-table establishment.  As my friends

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The Holy Eucharist

Three Different Views Concerning the Eucharist Most Christians would readily agree that the Eucharist is “the central act of Christian worship.”   [The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 2nd Edition, p. 475.]   Unfortunately, those who profess to follow the teachings of Jesus differ greatly when it comes to

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The Third Eye

A Talk for the Serra Club’s Dinner for Newly Ordained Priests             I have often told Jesus that if I had to invent a religion, I could not come up with a seemingly stranger one than Catholicism.  How can the Eucharist, what appears to be bread and wine, really be

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