Christmas Time!

Christmas time has indeed filled the air through and through. No longer is it only the stores hoisting their Christmas/’Holiday’ decorations and playing their tunes while offering shoppers bait- I mean sales- to lure them to the stores. Most Catholics have for three weeks stopped complaining about how its not Advent yet. In addition, today [...]

Working for Three

I think I should write a book called ‘Working for Three’. Tonight for about the umpteenth billion time I heard the story from Fr. Clem, who is 83, about how he went to Lourdes and was healed of his terminal cancer. He made the promise to the Blessed Mother there, that if She healed him, [...]

Our Lady of Guadalupe!

Happy Feast Day. Today Mexico and all the Americas celebrate the Virgin Mary’s wonderful appearance to Juan Diego nearly 500 years ago at Tepeyac. Our Lady is at work here in this world trying to further her Son’s glory. She is filled with grace and wants to give that grace to [...]

Happy Feast of Juan Diego

Juan Diego was an indigenous farmer living near Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City). On his way to the city through the hills, Our Lady appeared to Him and told him to tell the bishop to build her a church on that hill. Juan Diego was not believed until he presented himself again with his cloak [...]

How is your spiritual life?

How many of you out there are afraid of going to confession? Me too. Okay, now… how many had the response, “I don’t have to go to confession. The Church is so negative and just wants to get me down and have me think about how bad I am.” It’s interesting to see many different [...]

A day at Salesian High

For one of our Wednesday trips, the pre-novices and I went to our school in New Rochelle, New York. We got to hang around the school, meet with the director for awhile, sit in on some classes, and give a few vocation talks to the religion classes. The high schoolers are great and really seem [...]

The King of Glory

It’s Advent now. So that means we sing….

What every Christian needs

Spiritual Direction. Thomas Merton has defined the spiritual person as one who “in all that he does he acts freely, simply, spontaneously, from the depths of his heart, moved by love.” This really simplifies spirituality for some people. If you are spiritual, in the Christian sense, then you operate out of love. “Whether you eat, [...]

Well it’s official…

Texas is not in the Big 12 Title game. Instead, two teams that they beat are playing for their own conference championship. I believe the Big 12 will revisit the rules after this season. If they had the SEC rulebook, Texas would have been playing in the Title game. Either way though, it wouldn’t be [...]