Is God calling me?
When I talk about vocation, many get scared at just the though of it. The first things that come to their mind are religious habits, endless prayers, people living in…
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February Funk
January is a pretty rough month. February is a close second. Especially when you are a Dean of Students. I don’t care if it’s a public school or a high…
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7 Unmerited Gifts that God Gives to Priests and Consecrated Religious
How is it possible that a young man decides to leave everything behind to enter the seminary? Why would this young woman decided to leave her old life to shut…
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The Interior life and the Spiritual Life
Those of you who are introverts will understand me well when I mention the interior life. We attend to that life quite frequently, often taking refuge away from all the…
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Old and New Colors
I wish to paint a picture for you of something I felt very strongly recently. The verbal expression of the feeling is this: With Christ we see new colors. I…
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Not to Mention the Stars
Is it good to show sex in a book? Some argue yes. “After all, love is what makes the world go round,” they say. “It’s happening somewhere every hour of…
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When the Veil Falls
Not long ago, my team had a crazy idea. As if seminary life in Rome wasn’t crazy enough, we decided to throw in a little more adventure and pull an…
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Why Seminarians Are Small Beans
The following sounds like today’s gospel passage, but I made a few alterations to make a point. Perhaps you will understand. If not, I will explain. “This is how it…
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God’s Protagonists Suffer
The alarm screams on the nightstand. Morning grips and twists our deepest core and fills our whole self with the gut-wrenching pain we all know as… Monday. Now, this can…
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Librarian in Flight
21D—of itself, it signified an aisle seat in the 21st row of the Boeing aircraft. To Mr. Harrison, librarian, the letter signified the World History section of the Library of…
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Joy and a Crucified Heart
So I’m sitting in the chapel this morning (on the feast of the Sacred Heart) praying and the question sort of pops into my head: how can you find or…
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Difficulties vs. Challenges in the Life of a Christian
Every man needs to be tried and tested, and pushed to expand his limits. We need to be challenged like every runner challenge his muscles in training, for only by…
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Finding God in the Ordinary: A Natural First Step in Prayer
Prayer is in the Heart of Man More than once I have been asked by people how to pray. From the horse farmer I once met on a plane…
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Our Daily Dust
On Ash Wednesday we hear, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The words remind me where I’ve come from: God’s own hand drew man from…
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What Priests Won’t Tell You
Quite a few years ago, I read an article titled “What Doctors Won’t Tell You.” The content was basically secrets that doctors don’t tell their patients like tricks to pay…
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