Sunday March 5, 2023

I remember once on a pilgrimag

Friday March 3, 2023

If you were like me high school, you learned a very specific narrative about the Crusades in public school. It probably went something like this: the big bad Catholic Church in its thirst for power and money attacked the peace loving…

Thursday March 2, 2023

The great Italian mystic, St. Padre Pio, famously said, "Prayer is the oxygen of the soul." How do we do this well? If we want to succeed in anything in the Christian life, we must follow the example of Christ himself. He shows us how to…

Monday February 27, 2023

Friday February 24, 2023

In warfare, the nuclear bomb is the weapon of desperation. It's the choice when political and military leaders feel they have no choice. In one way, Jesus gave the Christian something similar, minus the destruction, as we see in the…

Thursday February 23, 2023

In the summer of 2004, my bags were packed, all my affairs were in order and I was shipping off to seminary. Years of prayerful discernment had finally come to an end -- God was calling me to the priesthood. Yet weeks before leaving, a…

Wednesday February 22, 2023

Lent has begun! As we enter with Jesus into the desert for the next 40 Days, the false claimants of our hearts will be unmasked. St. John called them the "lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life." (Cf. 1 John 2:15-16).

Sunday February 19, 2023

*Please note* The following homily was given at our Traditional Latin Mass, which follows a different liturgical calendar. The Epistle is from 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 and the Gospel is from Luke 18: 31-43.

Friday February 17, 2023

Muslim extremist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda, mockingly call us the "People of the Cross". To my ears, there's no better compliment to hear. 

Sunday February 12, 2023