Music is Prayer
Music was always around during my childhood. From hymns sung at Mass to my parents’ cassette tape collection of early rock and roll hits to piano lessons, there was no shortage of access to music for my four older brothers ...
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Solitude, then Conversion
Reflect According to St. Bonaventure, once, after St. Francis happened upon a leper, and a sense of revulsion turned to compassion, he felt light and peaceful. Francis then longed for solitude—opportunities to be alone with God. After some time of ...
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Like a Firefly
It’s late July. The Northeast is rolling with the peapod-scent of cornstalks rising and clouds reflect with perfect symmetry in the stillness of the reservoirs. Two of my friends have shared with me their epiphanies of a sort, of seeing ...
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Sharing the Word for March 7, 2023
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent March 7, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 The sinfulness of Sodom and Gomorrah brought them to destruction. Those that God refers to here as Sodom and Gomorrah are likewise headed ...
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Lent with St. Clare: Second Tuesday
In 1240, a group of Saracen mercenaries attacked the convent at San Damiano on their way to the city of Assisi. St. Clare, though sick and weak, confronted the men and held them off by raising the monstrance containing the ...
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McCarrick admits knowing victim as a child, denies sexual assaults