What is your opinion? That is the way Jesus begins our Gospel today. We all have our own opinions on what it means to be a disciple of Christ. We all hear the same Gospel and we all decide for ourselves how we put that into practice in our ownContinue Reading
Today is the feast day of Saint Therese. When she was just fourteen years old at Christmas, she encountered Jesus in such a powerful way that it changed her life. She entered a convent at only 15 years old and began to live a simple life. She believed that whatContinue Reading
The first reading from this morning reminds us that spiritual battle is real. In it, we see the scene from the book of Revelation in which Michael leads the armies of God’s angels to fight the devil and his demons. I want to talk about Saint Michael, Gabriel, and RaphaelContinue Reading
Obedience. Obedience is a word that many people do not want to hear in the modern world. Yesterday, as my brothers and I were being ordained as Deacons, we knelt down before the Bishop and made a promise of obedience. Many people would balk at that. Being a Deacon thoughContinue Reading
A famous poet once wrote the following lines: “See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth IfContinue Reading
Today I am going to start a series of videos called “Falling in Love with Jesus.” This past weekend I was on a silent retreat at Bellarmine in Barrington, Illinois. While we were there, I continually felt that God wanted me to show every person I know and meet howContinue Reading
On this day, we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Sometime around the 4th century, the mother of Emperor Constantine went to Jerusalem to find the holy places from Christs’ life. Legend had it that the temple of Aphrodite had been built directly over the tombContinue Reading