Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday
Liturgically speaking, Holy Saturday is the quietest day of the year – the time between Jesus’ death, and his resurrection which takes place at the Easter Vigil, technically Easter Sunday….
Good Friday Reflection: The Power of Christ’s Blood (St. John Chrysostom)
You may not know that one of the promises clergy & religious make upon entering their vocation is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (AKA Divine office.) This is…
Three Words
Two years ago, on January 14th, 2018, I said farewell to my father as he died due to complications related to cancer. It was one of the hardest days I’ve…
(Be)Loved by the Son
In the first part of this series, we took a look at what it means to be loved by our Heavenly Father. In this second post, we’re going to take…
A Good One
I’ve been married to my beautiful wife, Jennifer, for nearly twelve years now. Looking back, there are a number of moments in our relationship that terrified me: working up the…
God stacked the deck in my favor
In a lot of ways, life unfolds like a card game. You don’t get to decide which cards you are given… but you do get to decide how you’re going…
Be the Hero: doing what you can
From time to time we all see or hear about professional athletes being put into critical situations for their team: being put on the ice for sudden death overtime in…
And Jesus Wept…
I wrote this in December 2013 after a former student in one of my schools was tragically killed in a car accident. May it bring hope in some of your…
Is it HARD to get to Heaven?
On the night our parish youth group kicked off a semester of youth ministry programming on the Church, our guest speaker took questions from teens. One of them went like…
Why do good people suffer?
In the nearly 13 years I have been serving in youth ministry, one of my most vivid experiences is one I never expected to have at all. I was a…