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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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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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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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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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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Meditations on the Way of the Cross
For Lent, RC Spirituality has published my Meditations on the Way of the Cross and Fr John Bartunek made an amazing audio recording. In Meditations on the Way of the Cross, I…
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Your Vocation is Like a Seed… Sort of…
I’ve often heard while discerning my vocation to the priesthood that a vocation is like a seed: you don’t know what it is until you water it and give it…
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Everything
Lord, help me to tune out all that isn’t you. I don’t want to be a radio whose dial keeps spinning so there’s no way to hear any one thing…
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Channel for Grace
My Jesus, my Life, you call me through the quiet mountain breeze, through the cry of the hawk and the waving grasses. Your voice reaches me through an endless horizon…
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Deeper Towards God
Deeper. What does it mean to go deeper, to be a profound person? I believe that it simply means to have grown in our relationship with God—he knows us best,…
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Ink, Time, Reality
I just got my 2017 day-planner the other day. Yes, it’s a three-dimensional, paper-and-cardboard entity that many would consider more than outdated. So what? I’m still with one foot in…
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Wings of a Bird
Lord, you and I both know that there’s more to life than running around with my nose close to the ground, chasing after this or that goal, racing to beat…
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Paul Claudel: Stations of the Cross
Here’s a new translation I made of Paul Claudel’s stations of the cross. It’s a beautiful prayer and I hope it helps you this Lent! I put the first station’s…
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