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May 2025

May 08, 2025

If Not for the Worry

If not for the worry, I would be happy. On Monday I went to...

February 2023

February 25, 2023

I Try To Imagine, I Try To Pray

I should pray. It's the first Friday of Lent. I'm not skipping Lent this...

February 25, 2022

More on Ukraine, On Prayer, and How to Help

I've got a few more remarks on the horrendous invasion of Ukraine this week. The...

June 2021

June 06, 2021

The Terrible Meaning of Corpus

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi. I always thought that was a terrible word:...

November 2020

November 28, 2020

At Midnight, at Cockcrow, at Morning

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark: Jesus said to his disciples: “Be...

November 16, 2020

No, Christmas is Not Canceled

The War on Christmas seems to get earlier every year. It seems that today, a...

November 05, 2020

I Could Not Sleep

I had hoped to talk about the election results by now, but here we...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

Zinnias in the Plague Time

Rosie and I went for a walk. Michael was out walking too, but he was...

October 09, 2020

Every Night And All

It got cold last week. It was going to frost, or get close to it....

August 2020

August 03, 2020

Saint Therese, Stella Immanuel and the Charismatic Renewal

You've surely all heard by now of Doctor Stella Immanuel, who was praised by certain...

July 2020

July 19, 2020

Mercy Enough to Make it Rain

It's one of those times where it just doesn't rain. There was a severe...

July 13, 2020

Where Do You Go When You Go To Mass?

I wanted to be with Jesus. Since the COVID emergency began, I've had a...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

And Then Be Strong

There were snow flurries today. I don't think it's ever snowed in May, in Ohio,...

May 01, 2020

Faith Is A Thing That Holds

It's the first day of May. The narcissus have bloomed, fallen over and died, as...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

It Causes Me To Tremble

I woke up early, which isn't like me. Insomnia is another symptom I...

April 09, 2020

On the Darkest Holy Thursday

We've reached the end of Lent, the beginning of Triduum. Sunday will be Easter. The...

April 06, 2020

How Do You Get To Gethsemane?

No one said I couldn't go for a hike. There's a lot that's not allowed...

April 02, 2020

This Is What Gives Me Hope

Our country is awash in chaos and suffering. There is horror every time I...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

To Light One Candle

It is better, they say, to light one candle, than curse the darkness. Better...

March 23, 2020

A Disastrous Sentimentalism Indeed: First Things’s R. R. Reno Jumps the Shark

This afternoon I came across an article by R. R. Reno, the supposedly pro-life editor...

March 14, 2020

A Word on Church and a Word on Hoarding

It's Saturday, when I would usually be running out the door to a vigil Mass,...

March 11, 2020

Risk, Virtue and the COVID-19 Pandemic

I keep saying I hope that COVID-19 just goes away, and it keeps on not...

March 01, 2020

No, Lent is Not About Hurting Yourself

It happened again this Lent as always: the anxious Ash Wednesday discussion about fasting and...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Lent Begins in Winter

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There...

January 2020

January 03, 2020

A Prayer Under a Blood-Red Sky

It has not been a good year, so far. Australia is burning, and has been...

December 2019

December 26, 2019

Today, I am in Awe of You

Did you know that I am in awe of you? I have been so overwhelmed...

December 13, 2019

On the Tragic Death of Alana Chen

Last night I was horrified to read the story of a beautiful young woman named...

December 11, 2019

Where do You Turn When You Turn to God?

I have felt without a home lately. I still long to go to an Eastern...

December 07, 2019

Eighteen Suggestions for the Rest of Advent

On Friday, I suggested that we all need to be converted, and start living in...

November 2019

November 24, 2019

The Highest Majesty of God

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: The rulers sneered at...