Growth – Fr. Mike Seiler

Blinded

Mar 15, 2026Fr. MikeSermonsBlindness, Discrimination, Evangelism, Fear, Growth, Jesus, Judging, Love, Self-Awareness, Sin, Spiritual Growth, Transformation

I know everyone is familiar with Superman, and his alter ego, Clark Kent. One of the late night television shows did a spoof on this once. Clark Kent is sitting at his desk at the Daily Planet, and he takes his glasses off to rub his eyes, and someone yells out, “Superman! Wow! When did you get here!” And Clark puts his glasses back on to look around for Superman, and the person goes, “Huh? Where did he go? He was just here!” Clark gets wise, and pulls his glasses off again, and the person yells, “Oh! There you are!” What follows is Clark Kent taking his glasses off and on, with people seeing Superman, and then suddenly blinded to his presence the moment Clark puts his glasses back on. They thought Clark kind of looked like that Superman guy, but obviously, Superman didn’t need glasses, so it couldn’t possibly be him. They doubted what was right in front of them, and so they were blinded to reality.

The New New, Now Now

Mar 12, 2021Fr. MikeRandom ThoughtsChrist, God, Gods Plan, Gods Will, Growth, Newness, Prayer, Renewal, Sanctification, Seeking, Seeking God, Spiritual Growth, Transformation, Waiting

I’ve seen books that hype the new way to experience the divine, new methods for seeking God, new ways to enter into that state of bliss that helps us to commune with God.

And these books always seem to sell well. They sell well, because the old, tried and true methods for finding God have been tried, and found not to be true.

Remember when we were little?

Sep 24, 2020Fr. MikeDaily Office Reflections, Random ThoughtsAcceptance, Growth, Self-Acceptance, Self-Examination

“Didn’t we play stickball with him?” “Didn’t he once pull the tail of a donkey an make it bray so loudly at 3am that all the neighbors woke up?” “Didn’t he used to catch frogs down by the river and scare the girls with them?”

“Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”