Freedom and Happiness
Sermon for the Third Sunday after Trinity July 6, 2014 Two day ago we celebrated the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was on that day 238 years ago that the founders of...
View ArticleThe (God-)Man in the Mirror
(Jesus Christ) is the brightness of eternal glory, the splendour of eternal light, the mirror without spot. Look into that mirror daily, O queen and spouse of Jesus Christ, and ever study therein your...
View ArticleThe Choice
Today is the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael – the Holy Archangels. And as I was praying this morning in preparation for Mass I was reflecting on how these Holy Archangels help to...
View ArticleThe Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
No time to write anything original today. Therefore I commend to you a wonderful article from EWTN found here. The thing that really caught my attention was the following: By the consecration which...
View ArticleA Man Unafraid to Tell the Truth
On this day 51 years ago C.S. Lewis died. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few men that actually met and talked with Lewis (one of them being my friend Thomas Howard) but I never had the pleasure...
View ArticleGod’s Will and Man’s Prayer
The quote below is from the Office of Readings appointed for Friday, November 28, 2014. The first line and how he connects it to prayer is what really caught my attention. Our obligation is to do God’s...
View ArticleThe Finite leads to the Infinite
I am still attempting to finish my series of posts on ‘chance’ – if there is such a thing – but I am still thinking about how to end it. In the meantime, here is something I just read that is very...
View ArticleThe Difference between Need and Want
People…have become used to an image of God handed down to them as very conerned, even jealous, about receiving the honor and glory due him, as though he somehow needed this for his own sake. But this...
View ArticleThe Path of Obedience
Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent March 22, 2015 On March 20, which was Friday of last week, I celebrated my fifth anniversary of ordination as a Catholic priest. And so I stand before you today, a...
View ArticlePrayer: Union with God
Prayer is nothing else than union with God. From A Catechism on Prayer, by St. John Mary Vianney Before today, if someone had asked me “what is prayer” or “why is prayer important,” I would have had a...
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