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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…