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February 2018

February 21, 2018
Sorry, your browser does not support HTML5 audio. All week long I am discussing practical...
February 07, 2018
I pray. Prayer grounds me and guides me. I believe in it and I practice...

December 2017

December 28, 2017
I wrote this prayer of thanksgiving for the Christmas season this year.  I have been...
December 11, 2017
Last week I was invited to speak at the disciple's night with my friends at...

November 2017

November 26, 2017
Earlier this year I had a chance to spend a couple days with my friends...
November 25, 2017
This past Saturday was the beatification of Fr. Solanus Casey. He is now only one step...
November 24, 2017
I sat down with Ralph Martin recently to talk about my faith journey. If you...
November 22, 2017
I recently gave a talk on how being thankful can become a powerful practice to...
November 21, 2017
I once heard it said that Chess is the only form of art in which...

September 2017

September 15, 2017
It was Thursday a couple weeks ago. We were out in the Garden at Cultivate...

August 2017

August 13, 2017
Rage is deceptive seeing vengeance as a cure for the pain within It casts blame...
August 02, 2017
I've been thinking a lot lately about living a three-dimensional gospel. What this means is...

July 2017

July 25, 2017
We are often told to count our blessings. I think it's a great practice. It...
July 21, 2017
I recently had a chance to share a little bit about my journey as a...
July 19, 2017
Family is the most basic expression of God's kingdom in this world.
July 04, 2017
It's been a hard year to be an American. There's been no end to the...

June 2017

June 18, 2017
This is how I felt becoming a father. It was something I had only experienced...

April 2017

April 26, 2017
This morning in Morning Prayer I was praying through a very old Easter hymn that...
April 22, 2017
The Christian life can be summarized as the living out of the pascal mystery in...
April 13, 2017
In Donald LaSalle's article, "Devotion Searching for a Place in the Liturgy: The Development of...

March 2017

March 01, 2017
  Like many of you, a cross formed from the ashes of burnt palms dons...

February 2017

February 22, 2017
My neighborhood park this morning was beautiful. I love the fog. It helps defuse the...
February 22, 2017
Many wonder at why we use the cross so much in Catholic life. We make...
February 20, 2017
Over the years I've heard a lot about importance of a dog in the life...

December 2016

December 20, 2016
Alexander Schmemann reminds me... "The Eucharist is a movement of adoration and praise in which...
December 18, 2016
Today I say thank you To the builders Who dig among the ruins of burned...
December 17, 2016
Emily Dickinson reminds us: “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the...
December 16, 2016
Coleridge called dew the gems of the mourning and the tears of "mournful eve." Each...
December 15, 2016
"The wild goose" is one of the lesser used terms for the Holy Spirit, but...
December 14, 2016
Been playing with natural frames and lenses. This is a good exercise. It opens my...
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