As I write this blog, I am 2 weeks away from celebrating what will be one of the most important days of my daughter’s life. She will be receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion, the greatest expression of God’s love for humanity! After a two-year preparation, the excitement is sensed […]

I was diagnosed with leukemia when I was 18 years old. Back then people didn’t survive cancer, at least I had never heard of anyone who had. The whole family was in a tailspin, but not my mom; she was too busy scraping us all up off the floor and […]

Today, out of nowhere, I realized that… I am successful!!! It took me a long time to achieve my success, and it is necessary to tell you the story of what happened, so that you can replicate it. It all started one day during my adolescence:  someone had given me […]

In these last months, I have been thinking back to my earliest memory of me ever considering the priesthood. I was probably no older than five or six and my father was asking my brothers and I what we wanted to be when we grew up. When it was my […]

Not long ago, we were dining at home and discussing what it means to be a faithful Catholic in today’s world. We were reflecting on an event in which a person, who is also Catholic, expressed an open view about the possibility that the true path to salvation might be […]

On the first Holy Thursday, Jesus gave us the gift of the priesthood and the Eucharist. Recently, Jesus reminded me of the power of these gifts. Here is how He did it….I was on my way to meet some friends for dinner when my phone rang. Assuming it was another […]

We, the Church, have just experienced the multidimensional face of our own salvation in this past week. We have waved triumphant palm branches in vain anticipation of a different kind of reception…a reception that might part a Red Sea of fear and hatred…a liturgy that changes in the blink of […]

If Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith … you are still in your sins. (1 Corinthians 15:14-17)With these powerful words from his First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul helps us see the essential influence he attaches to Jesus’ resurrection. Indeed, […]

If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. (Matthew 16:24)Despite serious concerns about my safety, I traveled in peace to Nicaragua in January.  Fourteen priests, two seminarians and two bishops were put in jail during that time.  Nevertheless, I was blessed […]

During Lent Jesus wants to come closer to us. He calls us to his Kingdom, to contemplate his way of being and to follow him. During this time, we become aware that we are called by God, invited to know his Son, Jesus, more closely.Studying the spirituality of St. Ignatius […]