A few years ago, my whole family witnessed a terrible accident involving eight cars. Shattered glass was everywhere. We saw some people who were injured and others who were dead. We prayed for the people and for their families. More »
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During these last two weeks before Advent, the first reading for almost every weekday Mass is taken from the Book of Revelation. This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen our appreciation of this last—and probably most puzzling—book of the Bible both through personal study and in our common worship at Mass. More »
It’s one thing to meditate on “love your enemies” when life is going smoothly. But how relevant is Christ’s command when you are consumed with anger, surrounded by aggressive attorneys, and wish you could throw someone in jail? Can you even hear his call to forgive? This is the question that confronted me in July 2009. More »
All Souls’ Day, or the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, which the Church celebrates on November 2, is an opportunity to commend our loved ones to God. More »
The Book of Revelation is filled with prayers of worship, adoration, and praise. Even in the parts that describe the violent upheavals of the end of the world, the angels and saints in heaven are still singing joyful songs of victory and love to Jesus. More »
Residents of countries in the Caribbean are picking up the pieces in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. In the US, millions more are doing the same. Seeing these images of devastation and human suffering, we remember other natural disasters in the recent past—hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis. And we wonder. More »
Sometimes it’s not clear to us what God’s call is in our lives. It can seem very mysterious. But what I’ve witnessed again and again, especially in my work now as vocation director for our diocese, is that if we believe that God is calling us and we respond in faith, he will confirm that call with a sense of his joy, presence, and peace. That has certainly been the case in my own life. More »
Most of us do a lot of talking, much of it about other people. Some of our people talk is just practical: “Are you still working on those invoices? Joe’s been waiting for them all morning!” Some of it is pretty personal: “Hey, I heard Joe’s wife walked out on him. Couldn’t take his drinking anymore.” More »