Sacred Meditations
Your Year in Review (Performing a Yearly "Examen")
As midnight approaches on New Year's Eve, many of us find ourselves caught between two impulses. The first is to charge ahead—to make resolutions, set goals, and map out the...
Your Year in Review (Performing a Yearly "Examen")
As midnight approaches on New Year's Eve, many of us find ourselves caught between two impulses. The first is to charge ahead—to make resolutions, set goals, and map out the...
The Refiner's Fire: God's Purpose in Our Trials
Have you ever watched a master jeweler at work? With masterful skill, they hold a piece of raw silver over an intense flame, watching intently as the metal liquefies and...
The Refiner's Fire: God's Purpose in Our Trials
Have you ever watched a master jeweler at work? With masterful skill, they hold a piece of raw silver over an intense flame, watching intently as the metal liquefies and...
Better to Understand than to be Understood
Have you ever been in a conversation where you found yourself mentally rehearsing your rebuttal while the other person was still speaking? Perhaps it was during a family dinner when...
Better to Understand than to be Understood
Have you ever been in a conversation where you found yourself mentally rehearsing your rebuttal while the other person was still speaking? Perhaps it was during a family dinner when...
Practicing Chastity of the Eyes (The Story of S...
Have you ever caught yourself lingering a little too long on an Instagram photo? Or found your gaze wandering where it shouldn't at the gym, the beach, or even during...
Practicing Chastity of the Eyes (The Story of S...
Have you ever caught yourself lingering a little too long on an Instagram photo? Or found your gaze wandering where it shouldn't at the gym, the beach, or even during...
The Mystery of Perfect Unity (Why the Nicene Cr...
Have you ever watched a master craftsman at work with their child, teaching them the family trade? There's something profound in that moment when you realize the child doesn't merely...
The Mystery of Perfect Unity (Why the Nicene Cr...
Have you ever watched a master craftsman at work with their child, teaching them the family trade? There's something profound in that moment when you realize the child doesn't merely...
Eat what's set before you
Several years ago, one of my former parishioners brought me a casserole. It was one of those moments when kindness arrives in a glass dish covered with aluminum foil, still...
Eat what's set before you
Several years ago, one of my former parishioners brought me a casserole. It was one of those moments when kindness arrives in a glass dish covered with aluminum foil, still...