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What We Should See, and What We Should Be Doing

Perhaps no modern story tells the reality of what a soul should see, what a...

November 25, 2025

Community and Joy, as Necessary as Salt and Light

When people talk about celebrating Thanksgiving, they talk about who is coming or who came...

November 23, 2025

Over at the Standard and at Home…

So I had a piece published Friday at the Catholic Standard: The Heart of Thanksgiving....

November 19, 2025

What Ails Me about AI

In this day and age, when students google and copy whatever AI tells them from...

November 18, 2025

The Only Hours

It's four o'clock in the morning. I should be sleeping. My thoughts falling down the...

November 09, 2025

Loving Beyond What You Knew You Could

All of life is preparation for the final four things: death, judgement, heaven or hell....

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October 15, 2025

Layers

We all have songs we love, that convey with them a whole host of memory. ...

October 03, 2025

The Ongoing Miracle that is

So I have a piece over at the Catholic Standard this week from the experience...

September 2025

September 24, 2025

Things We Say to Delay God

"Not now. Too busy. I'm tired. Tomorrow." These are the words we say when we...

September 14, 2025

The Silent “I’m Sorry” and the Needed, “I Forgive You.”

Sitting in the pew during mass, weeping over hurts that bubble up, I found myself...

September 06, 2025

What We Can’t Do

Any time someone does wrong, there is a temptation to retaliate. It's human nature, to...

September 02, 2025

Those Who Teach Must Do

The shooting in Minnesota is, was, and shall remain a tragedy. The shooter must face...

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August 28, 2025

Around the Dinner Table

These days, I value ordinary conversations. They're becoming an endangered species. I used to listen...

August 26, 2025

Growing Hurts, but it’s worth it

Any time we've made spiritual progress, we should expect to be tested and will probably...

August 23, 2025

Be Kinder than Deserved

Putting everything together for school takes a lot of physical time and all the mental...

August 19, 2025

Selling Everything, Surrendering the “That”

Every year we hear this gospel about the rich good young man who went away...

August 17, 2025

How We Handle What Is to Come

The easiest path to joy, is to count your blessings. This weekend, I saw all...

August 14, 2025

If You Want to Be a Saint, You Cannot be Safe Here

I keep thinking of the line from "The Chronicles of Narnia," "He's not a tame...

August 12, 2025

Tuesday Musings with Tolkien, the World, and God

We live in a world that seems very binary. There's a meme about how "Christian"...

August 11, 2025

35 Years and Counting

Today, thirty-five years ago, I married the love of my life. I know it's been...

August 08, 2025

Small Success Thursday

When I first began blogging, a site called "Faith and Family" ran a regular posting,...

August 06, 2025

Not Shutting the Door

I was today years old when I realized, I keep the door shut on grief....

August 04, 2025

Start Asking

Last week, we heard my favorite Gospel passage. “Ask and you shall receive, seek and...

August 01, 2025

Where HAVE you Been?

Summer is a time when everything comes due. All the paperwork I need to complete,...

July 2025

July 07, 2025

Then, Now, Always, Camp Mystic

Back in '77 and '78, I went to Camp Mystic. The pictures splashed over CNN,...

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June 25, 2025

Summer Movie Fun

Having lived through raising ten kids over the past three decades, I've become an expert...

June 25, 2025

Preparing For A Journey

Back in 2001, our associate pastor introduced the parish to the "Total Consecration of Jesus...

June 20, 2025

Small Success Saturday

So what I done lately? Well, I used to have Small Success Thursday, so I...

June 08, 2025

Pentecost 2025

We don't call on the Holy Spirit enough. The third person of the Trinity...

June 01, 2025

Why Conviction Without Love Leads Us Astray

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