Drop everything and think of heaven
You’re busy. You’re being pulled in a million different directions, distracted by a million different hopes, worries and fears. Maybe your health isn’t great. Maybe your job isn’t thrilling. Maybe…
You’re busy. You’re being pulled in a million different directions, distracted by a million different hopes, worries and fears. Maybe your health isn’t great. Maybe your job isn’t thrilling. Maybe…
Almost 11 years ago during a semester abroad in Rome, some classmates and I opted for a day trip to Orvieto, Italy. We visited the Orvieto cathedral, praying in front…
‘Fiat lux’ — let there be light “For as bats eyes are to daylight so is our intellectual eye to those truths which are, in their own nature, the most…
In the five months since the passing of my father, I’ve come to learn that grief is a process of searching. It is searching through photos on my computer for…
“Oh, I just love how inclusive you are!” It felt like a punch to the gut. It was Christmas and I had been given a chance to say something about…
“You are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Gn 3:19). These words, often heard on Ash Wednesday, were originally spoken by God to Adam after Adam ate the forbidden…
When I think of Lent, I think of self-denial, misery and general suffering often made manifest in cold showers and dessert-less meals. After the indulgence of the Christmas season, and…
Every year when Lent rolls around, we find ourselves facing the same question: “What should I do to live this season well?” In Stephen Covey’s famed book “The 7 Habits…
Minds wander, and mine was doing such a thing one day when it struck me that Cinderella sets forth a perfect little parable for the kingdom of heaven. Perhaps the…
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” I once relayed to my classes on Ash Wednesday. Not surprisingly, my students met my remark with questions, less-than enthusiastic responses, and…