Have you ever met an Angel? I have and I call her Mom. In our lives, we have the opportunity to meet and experience ‘Angels’ that touch, guide or help us in many different ways. I believe that the best Angels we will ever encounter are our Mothers. Mothers will […]

A few years ago, I signed up for a Lenten prayer series on St. Ignatius of Loyola. I knew very little about this popular saint, so I thought it would be good for me to learn about his life and sainthood. To be honest, in reality I learned very little about […]

Imagine having the wisest person in the world as your closest friend – somebody with so much knowledge and experience that it would be foolish not to ask this person for advice. Somebody shaped by experience and light, always above and beyond all anxieties, regrets, guilt and failures. Somebody whose […]

Jesus replied, ‘For whoever is not against us is for us.’ (Mark 9:40)I keep these words in the forefront of mind as I go about the job of pastoral ministry.  It reminds me that I do not have to agree with everything an organization says or does in order to […]

I can think of no better way to rejoice in Jesus’ Resurrection and to continue the great celebration of Easter than to mark Divine Mercy Sunday with a remembrance of our beloved and beautiful Christina Dangond. Most all of us know Christina’s favorite prayer and one she repeated daily, despite […]

What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in the semblance of a gardener, God walked again in the garden, in the cool, not of the evening, but of the dawn. (C.K. Chesterton) When I read […]

Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? (My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?)  Familiar words? Yes, and we will hear them this Palm Sunday in the beautiful liturgy of the Passion of the Lord when the Gospel of Saint John’s accounting of Christ’s Passion is proclaimed aloud in parts: Jesus, […]

There is nothing you could ever do to make God stop loving you.  This is something that was said during a prayer group meeting I attended almost 10 years ago.  Though it seems quite obvious to me now, the time I first heard those words I can tell you that […]

Even though this is a topic that few like discussing, death is an imminent reality. When people die, their loved ones send messages on cards or chisel on tombstones expressions of what the person meant to them, including some of the person’s qualities or deeds. Now let’s suppose that your […]