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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....

September 2025

September 02, 2025

Those Who Teach Must Do

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

February 2025

February 25, 2025

Jubilee Year of Hope 2025

The pope is in the hospital. It's the Jubilee Year of Hope. Given how he...

February 03, 2025

Grammys, Trump, Worries, Prayer

I tried to watch the Grammies, but they didn't pull me in, not with the...

December 2024

December 08, 2024

Grief Makes You Stupid

The phrase, "How are you doing?" seems so innocent, so simple, so straightforward. It is...

November 2024

November 23, 2024

When We Cannot Say Except in Our Hearts

When my children were little, their exploits could be shared because the stories themselves were...

November 13, 2024

Pray for the Living and the Dead all November

All of November, we pray for the souls of those in Purgatory, which is everyone...

November 05, 2024

A Prayer Before The Election

That we remember that each person in this land, is our brother or sister in...

October 2024

October 22, 2024

My Favorite Sacrament

My youngest is preparing for Confirmation. I remember deciding upon my patron saint and preparing for...

October 14, 2024

Call Your Mom

This week, God keeps putting people in front of me who want or need prayers. ...

September 2024

September 20, 2024

Who Should We Not Love?

When you read Saint Paul, a week after reading Saint James, you should feel convicted. ...

September 05, 2024

Can’t Teach What You Don’t Do and Don’t Love

It's not entirely true. One can learn a discipline and convey it to others, but...

July 2024

July 09, 2024

Prayer is Always Heart to Heart, So Pray for Our Nation

The other day, I read an Op-ed in the Washington Post, in which the author begged...

October 2023

October 22, 2023

Praying and Working for Peace takes Courage

We cannot see what is happening in the world as a comic book, with one...

October 21, 2023

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!

For the past three months, I've been adding doing one thing for my health each...

October 05, 2023

Theme of the Day

For the past five years, I've taught ninth grade. One thing we spend a great...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

Side Effects

Image by Lynn Greyling from Pixabay It's been about two years since I was diagnosed with cancer, and...

May 2023

May 24, 2023

Praying for Everyone

Our lives seem very frail these days. The news tells me every day, of how...

April 2023

April 15, 2023

Divine Mercy is the Perfect Counter to the Fallen World

Do we forgive others? Do we really renounce our requirement of retribution, of revenge?...

March 2023

March 14, 2023

How do You Manage Teens? You Love Them

Photo of us spending quality time with the teens --as we took everyone to see...

August 2022

August 10, 2022

Sometimes You Need to Yell at God, but Don’t Worry, He can Take it.

Having gone to confession today, I recognized that I needed to yell at God. Not...

May 2022

May 17, 2022

Over at Our Sunday Visitor This Week

The beginnings of thoughts on the horrific shooting and violent deaths of ten people in...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

What Must We Do?

There's been a growing trend amongst those in the Catholic world of media. Those who...

January 2022

January 06, 2022

500 Words

Runners run, chefs cook, writers write. I've been off my writer's game since before Christmas. ...

November 2021

November 08, 2021

The Weight of a Millstone

We hear the Gospels but we've heard them so often, sometimes we've lost our imaginative...

November 06, 2021

Going to the Well, Admitting I’m Thirsty

The problem with being a writer is, you have your past words to remind you...

November 02, 2021

Today is the First Day

It's hard to know what to call this person I know who died today. He's...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Retro Saturday: Having a Youtube Moment, and How Not To…

This was written back on January 4th of 2008. First, a disclaimer: I don't watch...

June 2021

June 10, 2021

AN HONEST POST

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