Let all the devout, all who love God rejoice in this beautiful, bright Feast. Let the wise servants be glad and enter into the joy of their Lord. Let those who have borne the burden of the Fast, now receive their pay. And those who have toiled since the 1st hour, now receive their just […]
Good Friday Reflection: The Power of Christ’s Blood (St. John Chrysostom)
You may not know that one of the promises clergy & religious make upon entering their vocation is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (AKA Divine office.) This is a routine of prayers that they pray at various times throughout the day to make sure that they don’t lose sight of their relationship with […]
Prisoner #16670
St. Maximilian Kolbe is one of my heroes… so every year I “bump” this post in his honor. If you’ve ever studied World War II, you’ve probably heard of Auschwitz. Auschwitz was initially a concentration camp that later became the largest of the Nazi death camps, where almost 1.1 million people -mostly Jewish- died. One of these 1.1 […]
Hail Mary
When I began to seriously investigate my faith, one of the things I was really struck by was Pope St. John Paul II’s devotion to Mary. It seemed like every homily he gave and every letter or book he wrote ended with some sort of recourse to the Mother of God. When I began to […]
Mary, the Mother of God
When I attended Bible School in 1998-99, I began an incredible journey discovering the depth and the beauty of my Catholic faith. While I have always been Catholic, the second half of my life has offered me an opportunity to begin to understand what that really means and what my faith was all about. One […]
On St. Joseph…
I’ve often felt bad for St. Joseph, the husband of Mary and foster father to Jesus. He literally had the perfect family. His wife was the woman God chose from every woman who has ever lived, preparing her from the very moment of her conception for her very important mission. Very few people in […]