When a baseball team begins to rally from a late-inning deficit, it’s said that the team has new life. When a husband, finally, this year, remembers his wedding anniversary, most definitely, that guy has new life. When the doctor pronounces a patient cancer-free, assuredly, that person has new life. Every time we go to confession [...]
Archive for the ‘Hunger for the Spirit’ Category
New Life
Posted in All Life Has Value, Encounter Christ, Hunger for the Spirit, You Are Loved on April 9, 2012 |
Leaves
Posted in A Time To Pray, All Life Has Value, Hunger for the Spirit on December 5, 2011 |
What an incredible blessing it was to be with the young ladies of this past weekend’s silent retreat at the St. Thomas More house! Not only did I bring home the championship belt from the silent (sort-of) Apples-to-Apples competition (sorry for the shameless self promotion, but hey, to the victor goes the spoils), but I [...]
The Reality We Signify
Posted in Encounter Christ, God is Calling You!, Hunger for the Spirit on September 6, 2011 |
Last month, during his homily for the seminarians attending World Youth Day, Pope Benedict preached the following: “The holiness of the Church is above all the objective holiness of the very person of Christ, of his Gospel and his sacraments, the holiness of that power from on high which enlivens and impels it. We have [...]
August Saints
Posted in Faith Takes Action, Hunger for the Spirit, Make Disciples of All the Nations, Uncategorized on August 1, 2011 |
I love the saints. Admittedly, I don’t always emulate them in the manner I should, but I do love them and take inspiration from their lives. And for anyone who shares my excitement about the saints, August is a great month. Why? Because there are incredibly, stupendously awesome and amazing saint feast days in the [...]
Refuge
Posted in A Time To Pray, Do Not Be Afraid, Have Hope, Hunger for the Spirit, You Are Loved on June 27, 2011 |
Life can be terribly complicated — sometimes in an adventurous “let’s figure out the puzzle” way, but sometimes complicated in a hard “I just can’t find the answers” way. Struggles come, setbacks occur, hearts break, and our capacity to cope can be pushed to the limit. Too often, on the canvas of our life, the [...]
School’s Out
Posted in A Time To Pray, Encounter Christ, Faith Takes Action, Hunger for the Spirit on June 20, 2011 |
No more pencils, No more books, No more teacher’s dirty looks. Ah yes, school is indeed out for summer. School, that is, meaning the place where we go to study history, physics, and the cafeteria lunch menu. But the “School of Hard Knocks?” Always in session, my friend. The school of “Learning From our Mistakes?” [...]
Living Water
Posted in Faith Takes Action, Hunger for the Spirit on June 13, 2011 |
For our seminary course in “Grace,” the professor was the Italian Dominican, Fabio Giardini (translated into English as . . . Fabulous Gardens . . . love that name). Of the many good things that Fr. Giardini taught us about grace during the run of that course, the thing I remember most is this: Grace [...]
Guts
Posted in A Time To Pray, God is Calling You!, Hunger for the Spirit on May 9, 2011 |
Navy SEALs, arctic crab fisherman, and NFL quarterbacks share a common trait with the young men in our diocese who are considering a call to the priesthood: they have guts. For in a world where God is so often forgotten or blasphemed, young men who choose to follow his call are regularly looked at with [...]
Holy Week
Posted in Do Not Be Afraid, Grace, Hunger for the Spirit, You Are Loved on April 18, 2011 |
“I do not know the man!” Oh, Peter, how soon you regretted those words. From where in your heart had they come? For at Caesarea Philippi you had correctly identified Jesus as the Christ, the Savior of the world. In the upper room you had boldly professed your willingness to die for Jesus. And even [...]
Lenten Humility
Posted in A Time To Pray, Do Not Be Afraid, Faith Takes Action, Hunger for the Spirit on April 4, 2011 |
Sometimes I look out into the world and what I see is horribly discouraging. There is war, violence, scandal, injustice, natural disaster, human suffering and an abandonment of God. What can I do to change this? How can the bad be transformed into good? Sometimes I look into my own soul and what I see [...]
