Blog Favorite: City Father
I’ve been meaning to bring up how impressed I’ve been with Paulist Father (and good friend) Ron Franco’s blog City Father. Recently, Fr. Ron was just named pastor of the…
Preaching… not important?
Does preaching matter at mass? Sigh, some morons say no. PrayTell Blog posted this I recently came across an op-ed in a Catholic publication that just brushed the edge of…
Three in One
We often mistake the trinity for three divisible individuals, forgetting that God does all things. So it is always the three persons working in unity together. God the Father doesn’t…
Trying to Control the Sun
It was another wonderful day at Notre Dame filed with much intellectual stimulation. We were all treated to Sr. Mary Johnson, SND’s words on spirituality and then three wonderful vocation…
How Many Husbands Do You Have?
So Fr. Edward Beck who you might know from Good Morning America, led us in evening prayer last night. He reflected on the woman at the well and left me…
The Spirit Prods: You Can’t Take It With You
I’m moving in the next month from our apartment here in Buffalo adjacent to the lovely campus of Daemen College to our first “real” home. Moving often brings with it…
What One Couple Loves About Each Other
Ginny Kubitz Moyer the esteemed author of Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God (St Anthony Messenger) had this cute column in San Francisco’s Archdiocesan paper…
How to Fill Your Pews
Deacon Greg pointed me to this link from Joe Ferullo and the National Catholic Reporter My cousin is a business graduate student back at home, and is staying with us…
Caught in Jesus’ Net
You can’t be something that you’re not. It sounds like an easy platitude to follow–be yourself. But quite often we choose to be something other than who we really are.…
Are The Wounds Too Deep For Jesus?
I think there’s a bit of Doubting Thomas in me this week…and I suspect that there’s a bit of Thomas in all of you as well. I have doubted this…