In my personal list of virtues, you’d have to bow your eyes pretty low to find the word ‘patience.’ Growing up, the expression ‘we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it’ was used more often than ‘go brush your teeth’ or ‘what’s the magic word?’ It was evident from […]

We tell people we’re hoping for four kids, and suddenly, it’s like we announced we’re starting a soccer team. Friends with one or no kids just laugh and say, ‘No way! The factory is closed! No more for us!’ Even so, we’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re aiming for four kids.’ […]

It’s hard to believe that the season of Advent is already upon us!  During Advent we are asked to pray more often and more fervently, seek forgiveness and be more forgiving of others, and prepare for the coming of our Lord by making sacrifices and doing good works.  While we […]

Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have bestowed on us. You have provided us with more than we could ever have imagined. You have surrounded us with people who always look out for us. You have given us family and friends who bless us every day with kind words […]

Jesus said to him, “It is also written, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord, your God.’” (Matthew 4:7)We live in a world that seems to move at great speed, disregarding valuable things. The effects of global warming are felt with crushing and devastating force in many corners of the world. […]

In the Painting of the Annunciation, the simplicity of the lines, the Trinitarian presence, the blue vault, the look of confidence and jubilation of the Angel announcer who is dressed in a garment tight at the waist that falls in large folds that cover his feet, and the purity of […]

That Sunday was supposed to be an ordinary day, but it ended up becoming one of the most transformative experiences of my life. The only thing different that morning was that my son, who is away at college, was coming to meet us at morning Mass. He had something important to […]

Master, I want to see. (Mark 10:51)Fall is an incredibly beautiful season here in the northeast region of the United States, when cool evenings begin to change the colors of green leaves to vibrant autumn colors before, they eventually ‘fall’ from their great heights to the cold ground, often twisting […]

There are many ways to describe time. For convenience’s sake we use numbers most often, but for much of human history we have used qualitative terms like “harvest” or “fall” to describe the season when the leaves carpet the ground. For adults involved in the education of teenagers (or really […]

Everything in nature grows and develops slowly: a tree that produces fruit, a baby that develops in its mother’s womb, the change from one season to another.  Even the great inventions and discoveries of humanity, as well as various artistic works, like beautiful paintings and sculptures or towering cathedrals, have […]