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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 30, 20143 min read
November 3: Runaway Bride
‘The bridal figure of the Samaritan woman represents the people of God, all of them…’ Grant Pitre During these forty days we are praying...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 26, 20142 min read
October 27th: Icons
‘Adam and Eve saw the glory of God in the human body…because they saw the body not just as a physical object but as a transparent sign of...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 26, 20143 min read
October 30: Fire of Love
‘Our heart should burst out of our body at the realization of the status and dignity which infinite Goodness has appointed us—first by...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 22, 20142 min read
October 26: Faithful Lovers
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…Love your neighbor as yourself.’ (Matt. 22:37,...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 20, 20142 min read
Retrieving the Family from Synod’s ‘Gay Follies’
How is it that a fraction of the population manages to steal the beauty of family? According to media reports, one would think that the...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 18, 20142 min read
October 21: Freedom from Sin is Freedom for Life
‘The Cross becomes a new center of gravity for bringing together what is divided.’ Pope Emeritus Benedict Anyone who wrestles with sexual...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 14, 20142 min read
October 15: Looking on Him Who We Have Pierced
‘Human actions cannot help us but only the sufferings of Christ.’ Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) We begin by gazing on...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 14, 20142 min read
October 16: Tears at the Cross
‘What do you weep at, if you do not weep at this?’ Dante I respond to Dante’s question with some uncertainty. When my sin draws me to the...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 14, 20142 min read
October 17: Humble and Contrite Heart
‘The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a humble and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.’ (Ps 51:17) We pierced God and He...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 14, 20142 min read
October 18: Song from the Cross
‘Listen! My Lover! “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with Me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone, Flowers...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 13, 20142 min read
The Bad, the Good, the Urgent: An initial take on the Synod of Family Report
Rome’s synopsis of its synod on ‘family life’ includes 3 paragraphs (out of 58) on homosexuality which could be a cause for alarm. The...
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Andrew Comiskey
Aug 4, 20143 min read
Delivered, Devoted, Declaring
‘Those forgiven of much love much.’ (LK 7:47) Amid three July gatherings of sinners desperate for Jesus—the annual Courage Conference,...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jun 16, 20143 min read
Tran-Wreck
Gleaming like an Amazon woman, he posed full-breasted in a tight dress–more woman than woman herself. In truth, this man on the cover of...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 26, 20143 min read
Darkness before Dawn
‘Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of His servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 19, 20143 min read
Fear and Fasting
‘The resurrection of Christ makes life a perpetual feast.’ St. Athanasius Real life provides many occasions for fear. As a parent, I am...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 12, 20143 min read
Faltering and Fruitfulness
My friend Kin recently texted me to rejoice in the prosperity of his two children, now faithful husbands and fathers. ‘What if I had...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 30, 20143 min read
Divine Mercy
Mercy is God’s ache for His children: a stream of unfailing love flowing from His heart towards ours. Through mercy, He woos us and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 25, 20141 min read
Stream Works
7 facts you do not know about Desert Stream/Living Waters Ministries: We employ 6 full-time ministers (plus support staff). We own and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 13, 20144 min read
Downward Ascent 8: Woeful Well-Being
‘Woe to you when all men speak well of you…’ (LK 6:26) ‘Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 7, 20144 min read
Downward Ascent 7: Prickly Peace
‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.’ (Matt. 5: 9) Failing to save ourselves, freed only through Mercy, we...
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