I’ve been watching an online discussion about the hour-long fast before Mass. That conversation began with a seemingly innocuous question: can I have my coffee in that hour? It seems kind of logical in a way to wonder, as coffee is technically just bean water. That doesn’t deter meContinue Reading
As many of you know, it took 10 years for me to get back to Virginia. I’ve written about that before. That’s ten years of planning to go into a short three-day trip. On the drive down we had opted to stay at a hotel about halfway there. We lookedContinue Reading
My wife and I struggle to find time to actually get out and have a date. My spiritual director constantly reminds me of the need for a husband and wife to put their vocation first, to make time for a date. For a while, that meant Friday nights were ourContinue Reading
“It’s rose, not pink. Jesus rose from the grave, he didn’t pink from it.” I once heard a Priest say that in an exasperated tone to someone teasing him yet again about his “pink robes.” Rose. Why rose? Why in the middle of the Advent season with its purple bannersContinue Reading
When my wife and I were married we went to Riviera Maya, Mexico for our honeymoon. We got up before the sun rose and drove to the airport. There we boarded a plane and took a four and a half hour flight to Cancun. Our travel agency met us atContinue Reading
December 12th is a hard day for me. In 2007 I had my back surgery, placing in 6 feet of titanium rods with 26 screws drilled into my vertebrae. It is also the day we lost one of our children to a miscarriage. + Another time we had anContinue Reading
It was a beautiful, sunny day. Whips of white clouds hung lazily in the air while people bustled about, oblivious as to what was about to happen. 31,000 feet above them the bomb bay doors opened on Enola Gay. The command was given, Little Boy was released. Forty-three seconds later,Continue Reading