This week is the Vocation awareness week. Where we as priests are being called upon to preach in our parishes about raising awareness about vocations and thinking through and meditating on the call to priesthood in our own lives and hopefully fostering some interest...
There is a beautiful tradition at the North American College – the seminary I attended in Rome. At the end of a seminarian’s time – provided he has been ordained a deacon or priest – there is a “send-off”. When he has completed his studies and formation, at the...
The word ‘remember’ is defined as the ability to recall an awareness of something, someone, that a person has seen, known, or experienced in the past. My earliest memory of attending a wake and funeral was for my Uncle Hugo …My young brain could not comprehend what...
A few months before his death Archbishop Fulton Sheen was asked in a television interview about who had been an inspiration to him. He replied that it was an eleven-year-old Chinese girl. When the Communists had taken over China they went into the girl’s parish (after...
The other day I saw a picture on the internet of a Russian missile that landed in the kitchen of a Ukrainian family. The family were all present… praying the rosary … The missile never detonated. You might say – “wow, how lucky they were…” Or maybe you might say that...
Recently I read an article entitled: The Hope of Lent in which the author makes note of the fact that Salvation History teaches us, time and time again, of the futility of our endeavors without God, of how we fall flat each time we assert or own will and earthly...