The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1)It is hard to find silence in our noisy world, but it’s even more difficult to find it within ourselves.  Many interior voices compete for our attention; none lead us to the place for which our weary hearts yearn, except […]

Though I have attended the Easter Vigil for years, I found this one to be particularly moving. This is because next Easter I will be ordained a Catholic priest. Throughout the drama of the Triduum, which reaches its climax at the Easter Vigil, I found myself thanking God for the […]

I have just returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where I had been on two previous occasions.  Returning is always a new and deeply comforting experience. From a tourist’s point of view, Israel is a country that has it all: the beautiful Mediterranean Sea, the Jordan River with […]

Christ is Risen! Death has been destroyed!This is the shout of victory that breaks the night of the Easter Vigil and opens wide the doors of our lives to the Light of the Love of God.Yet, concretely, what does this mean? What does it mean that Christ has been victorious […]

As we celebrate Palm Sunday and enter Holy Week, I invite you to join me in pondering the depth of the words in today’s Second Reading “…he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on […]

After spending a year in Missouri and Kansas, I am now spending a year doing missionary work in San Francisco, CA. What is striking about the city is the number of homeless people. Some streets are lined with five to ten tents at a time, and you can even find […]

The garden of the house that the Lord has allowed us to manage, has fruit trees and, in the back, is a small stream bordered by large trees that provide shade which are an ecological corridor enjoyed by various species of birds and, from time to time, herds of monkeys. […]

Come and see a man who told me everything I have done. Could He be the Messiah? (John 4:29) What humility this Samaritan woman has as she leaves her encounter with Jesus! When I was 16 years old, I went on my first Youth2000 Retreat where I experienced a significant […]

“Let it be done to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38) What would our life be like if we put this phrase, or rather, this decision into practice daily? St. Bernard of Clairvaux said that the “YES” of Mary is the highest decision of human freedom. Since it is […]

If there is something that affects our lives, it is living in the midst of disorder. Pitifully, many of us are messy and we take that mess wherever we go; that is, we have disorder in our house, in our workplace, in our rooms, and, of course, we also have disorder […]