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November 2019

November 13, 2019

Recharging Our Spiritual Batteries

A recent tweet by a priest I follow included the following quotes from Pope Benedict...

October 2019

October 04, 2019

Mustard Seeds, Miracles, and Marvel Comics

Marvel Comic's The Avengers is one of the most successful and popular movie franchises ever,...

September 2019

September 29, 2019

How To Pray When We Don’t Feel Like It

The spiritual life is not a glorious utopia or heaven on earth. Those who choose...

September 22, 2019

The Mystical Union of St. Pio of Pietrelcina

According to the remarkable mystic and saint, Padre Pio, "the more Jesus wishes to raise...

September 14, 2019

Our Lady of Sorrows and the Messages of Akita, Japan

In 1973, a Japanese nun by the name of Sister Agnes Sasagawa is reported to...

September 06, 2019

God’s Love and a Summer Day

Given the choice between feeling very hot or very cold, I will choose the stifling...

August 2019

August 27, 2019

The Church Is the Road Map to Life

"What is truth?" This is Pilate's well known retort to Jesus when questioning him in...

July 2019

July 27, 2019

Justice Serves Love

My 10-year-old daughter was playing a tennis match recently when her opponent called the wrong...

July 22, 2019

Letting Go and Letting God

You may have heard of the monkey trap. In South America, Africa, and Asia, natives...

July 17, 2019

Celebrating Our Lady of Mount Carmel

I turn my feet from evil paths to obey your word. I have not turned...

July 10, 2019

July Is the Month of the Precious Blood of Our Lord

There is a scene from Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, following the bitter...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Building a Storm-Proof (Spiritual) House

“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like...

June 18, 2019

By His Wounds -Three Best-Kept Secrets of Healing the Heart

"This is my commandment: love one another as I love you." (Jn 15:12) In a...

June 14, 2019

Atonement and the Sacred Heart of Jesus

June is the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII, in...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Come to Him, a Living Stone – Building the Kingdom of God

"Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander, like newborn infants,...

May 25, 2019

A Beautifully Wrapped Present for God

School is officially out for summer. I drove our children to school for the last...

May 01, 2019

Finding Hope with Empty Nets – Lessons from St. John of the Cross

As Christians, in life we are often like Peter and the other disciples in John's...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Celebrating Easter – The Fifty Day Feast

The world was shocked and saddened by the Easter Sunday bombing of three churches and...

April 25, 2019

Unplanned and the Mercy of God

Abortion is one of the greatest tragedies of our time, for all involved: the unborn,...

April 23, 2019

Mary Magdalene: Seeking Him Before Dawn

In the gospels of Easter Sunday and of the days following, we hear of Mary...

April 18, 2019

The Icon Peddler and the Good Fridays of our Lives

One night when I was in my 20s and living in an apartment with my...

April 16, 2019

Judas, Peter, and St. Bernadette: Betrayal, Second Conversions, and Faithfulness

The Betrayal of Judas In John's gospel today, the scene is set for Judas' betrayal...

April 14, 2019

Walking With Jesus Through Holy Week

My daughter and I drove south to Dauphin Island yesterday to meet friends on the...

April 11, 2019

Come to the Ocean of Mercy – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

"You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean...

April 04, 2019

Forgiving and Living Well

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com If you could summarize the gospel in one word, it...

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