As a child, one of my favorite things about Christmas was the Nativity scenes. From the teeny-tiny one on my family’s home altar to the
St. Benedict gives us a remarkable example of discipline. His simple motto, Ora et labora—pray and work—is still relevant to our own lives, so many centuries
I was a solo traveler in the pilgrimage I joined to the Holy Land and Turkey. Most of the others in the pilgrimage were traveling
I saw a funny meme about writing, which said, “Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet”: Vanity of
My small feet stepped across the sidewalk and my blue eyes widened as I took in the sights and sounds of Times Square. I had
One day, a home-schooled Anglo-Australian made a rather ill-informed statement on Asian education to his house mate, despite my presence: “Asians can’t be creative because
I jumped at the chance to review AT PLAY IN GOD’S CREATION: AN ILLUMINATING COLORING BOOK, because as the kid in all of us knows, nothing
But they said to him, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have here.” Then he said, “Bring them here to me,” and he
Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might
One of the highlights of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land that I was on recently, was witnessing married couples renew their marriage vows in
“Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had ‘the absolute’ within him. He had been a priest, which is a solemn thing. Man may
This election cycle has been extremely rough. Having only lived through a handful of presidential elections, I cannot attest to those that occurred before my
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. —G. K. Chesterton When I was little, one of my
This year is the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. I am sure that many of us still recall the Jubilee song of 2000: It’s a time
“Our souls demand Purgatory, don’t they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, ‘It is true, my son, that your breath
One of the things I run into a lot in talking about faith with those who do not share the faith, is the question of
In the Byzantine rite October 16 brought the feast of the centurion Longinus, who pierced the side of Christ and said, “Surely, this man was
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. —Proverbs 18:21 And if any man think
In the Gospels we never see Jesus as an attendee at a funeral. He attends festivals, weddings, and so many dinner parties that people consider him
The Year of Mercy will come to a close with the end of the liturgical year on November 20. How can we make the most
“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and
