Andrew Comiskey
Sacred Heart, Living Stream
I write this on the Feast Day of Jesus’ Sacred Heart: His generous love for each human being revealed in His pierced heart pouring out...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jun 11, 20202 min
Holy Resistance 2
By Marco Casanova “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it” (Mt...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 14, 20202 min
Grounded 9
‘The dignity of every woman is the responsibility of every man.’ St. John Paul 11, Theology of the Body The test of my love lies in...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 10, 20202 min
Resounding Authority
‘I pray that you would know…His incomparably great power toward those who believe’ (Eph. 1: 18, 19). Not a big surprise that sexual...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 7, 20202 min
Grounded 8
One strange (if inconsequential) impact of Covid-19 are ‘virtual’ running races. We who have preregistered for, say, half-marathons, are...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 23, 20202 min
Grounded 6
Let’s start with confession: I find virtual Masses unsatisfying. They provoke hunger without consummation. Fill my little screen with big...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 16, 20202 min
Grounded 5
A renowned director despises vast landscapes in his movies: ‘Humanity reveals itself only in cramped quarters’, he mused. Apply that to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 9, 20202 min
Grounded 4
‘Many are awed by His miracles; few accept the shame of His Cross.’ Thomas a Kempis From the beginning of His adult ministry, Jesus set...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 5, 20203 min
Shifting the Atmosphere
by Marco Casanova “Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.” GK Chesterton Shifting the atmosphere involves...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 2, 20202 min
Grounded 3
A Lent unlike any other: rather than beef up devotion, I find myself reducing spiritual intake. Much of the time I find myself gaping at...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 29, 20203 min
Forging Young Fathers: Shoring Up Foundations
Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Best way to prevent moral collapse of pastors? Train them to grow in robust chastity. It must be...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 18, 20202 min
Grounded 1
My dreams reveal one frustrated guy. I wake up half-smiling at the heart’s antics: I can’t get out of the room or parking lot, no exit,...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 9, 20202 min
Flyover?
Kansas City. Cowtown? Coastal flyover zone? C’mon. We are the champions. As a focused Kingdom-minded guy, I am not that partial to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 2, 20202 min
Best Group Ever
I kid you not. After 40 years of leading Living Waters groups, I just finished the best one ever. These twenty weeks rolled out like a...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 20, 20202 min
Fierce, Tender Love
‘Each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked.’ (Neh.4:18) Fighting for wholeness is at once a personal and corporate...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 20, 20193 min
Behold the Sham
‘You are the truth presiding over all things. But in my greed, I was unwilling to lose You, and wanted to have You at the same time as...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 6, 20193 min
Surrounded 2: Mending the Net
Since becoming Catholic, I’m more aware than ever of the ignorant, prejudicial attitudes that pervade both sides of our divided Church....
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Andrew Comiskey
Sep 29, 20193 min
Surrounded 1: Chariots of Fire
It can be tough to burn with hope for some LGBT+ persons; allergic to chastity, alive to sensational new ‘sexualities’, they frame us as...
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Andrew Comiskey
Sep 15, 20193 min
Living Bread, for the World
Long before I centered on the Eucharist as the focus of worship—the real meal that Catholics celebrate–I understood this breaking of...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jul 7, 20193 min
Abuse and Authority
The Church’s authority to restore sexually broken people with the power that raised Jesus from the dead hinges on her repenting from...
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