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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Coco and the Communion of Saints
With its film Coco, Pixar opens up the world of pre-colonial Mexican belief in the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Miguel, the main character, longs to be a…
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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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The Grace of Baptism
In 2011 I was asked to be the godfather at my niece Ava’s baptism. I was more than happy to take on this responsibility, and I felt honored to be…
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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 Yes, it’s a three-dimensional, paper-and-cardboard entity that many would consider more than outdated.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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Separated Brothers and Sisters, Forgive Us! A Letter from Paul VI
I recently discovered this letter written by Pope Paul VI in 1957 back when he was cardinal of Milan, just six years before his election as pope. He writes this letter…
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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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Give Me Your Hands
I’d like to share with you a prayer I wrote, a window into what I think every seminarian carries in his heart. So if you’d like to pray for all of…
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One Last Rose for Mary
Mother, as your month draws to a close, I’d like to take a few moments and share them exclusively with you. I know there will be many moments in the…
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Breathe on Me: Prayer for Pentecost
Lord Jesus, maybe it’s a bit hard for me to pray directly to the Holy Spirit—I guess I’m not quite sure how to relate with him. Yet I know he’s…
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Prayer in Emptiness
Holy Saturday. The Word of God is silent. So where are your words, your words that are spirit and life? Today I feel abandoned, left to fend for myself in…
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