I recently signed up for XM radio – per the suggestion of a friend considering I will be doing a lot of driving. The other day I was listening to the Catholic Channel and the host was asking people to call in to talk about what things their parish did during the...
Legend has it that Martin Luther – that famous 16th century monk who blew up the Catholic world launching the Protestant Reformation – used to have an expression: “never lie when you pray.” Now, whether or not he actually said it really doesn’t matter because it is...
Lately, given my new appointment by Bishop Byrne, I have been thinking a lot about my vocation as a priest and the journey I took to ordination. While discerning this vocation, I remember telling a priest-friend of mine that, while seriously thinking that God wanted...
In the early 4th century, as the persecution of the Church came to a close, the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal. Yet, it did not mean that there wasn’t darkness, sin, temptation, vice and so on. Christianity, however, was no longer the enemy of the world....
This past Monday several other priests and I gathered for prayer at one of our parishes. The priest leading our holy hour and time of Adoration spoke about a few things that have aided his time spent before the Blessed Sacrament and his prayer during that time. One...
Posture is defined as a position of the body, it can also be defined in terms of attitude. During Mass we sit, stand and kneel… a lot. Yet, it all means something and says something about our inner dispositions …Sitting is a posture of listening. We sit, ready to hear...