I spent the last 33 days of the Year of Mercy rebooting. How did you live up this Extraordinary Jubilee Year? Tell me in the comments below! A Chance to Start Fresh Seriously though, I did reboot. I had been feeling a need to start a new prayer routine, be more intentional about making […]
“All we can hope for in this life is complete self-gift.” My spiritual director told me this two years ago, and I still think of it often. To give our lives away in service of “the other.” Why do we do this? Out of love for Jesus. On October 5th, the Church celebrates the Feast […]
I have been told on several occasions by different priests to spend time prayerfully reflecting on the wounds of Jesus’s corpus hung upon the cross. One’s eyes gaze at the Lord’s head where the wounds are from the crown of thorns, then the eyes go to his hands where the nails were violently placed, then […]
You know there’s something super interesting and important going on when almost three million young people from around the world travel thousands of miles to participate. I am referring to World Youth Day (WYD). Participation in a WYD takes sacrifice, including leaving behind family and friends during the best days of the summer months. They leave behind their work […]
Today, as a Church we celebrate the Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, a priest who even priests look up to and ask for his intercession. In case you don’t know anything about Alphonsus, he founded a Religious Congregation of Men known as the Redemptorists. Throughout his life he preached the Gospel of mercy passionately, and […]
A reflection for National Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week July 24 – July 30, 2016 Our God is a God of life! He does not desire death, destruction, or suffering. He only wills life for each of us. The recent news of the terrible acts of violence in France, Turkey, Texas, and elsewhere makes […]
Every day we are faced with challenges. Sometimes we succeed! Other days, well, we fail—and we’re humbled by it, aren’t we? One of the everyday challenges for Christians is the challenge to remove what our culture presents as “nourishment for life,” but what I like to call “junk food.” This includes things like going into […]
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