This is my Beloved Son…

11 years ago today. I was just entering seminary, fresh out of high school. The annual retreat of the seminarians of the diocese had just finished and we, seminarians, were leading a day-retreat of other young men interested in the diocesan priesthood. It was a long and tiring day. I was driving home on a […]

Update on Publication: Sunday Gospels

Some of you have been following my project over the past year — the compilation of commentary on the Sunday (and Major Feasts) Gospels. The first phase was completed last Fall, but the editing phases have been moving slowly as I’ve been finishing my degree. I am very grateful to all of you who jumped […]

First Saturday: July 2020

“Meditate frequently on the sorrows of the Mother of God, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you go to the crucifix, you will there fnd the Mother, and on the other hand wherever the Mother is there also is the Son.” St. Paul of the Cross For the First Saturday Devotions, go […]

First Friday: July 2020

In this month of the Precious Blood let us place ourselves into the Wounds of Christ. Place every worry, every care, every thought, every step, every loved one, every friend, every joy, every tear…. place all that you are into that opening in the Sacred Heart, pierced for love of you! Saint John of the […]

Happy Feast of Saints Peter and Paul!

O God, who on the Solemnity of the Apostles Peter and Paul, give us the noble and holy joy of this day, grant, we pray, that your Church may in all things follow the teaching of those through whom she received the beginnings of right religion. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives […]

Novena to Saints Peter and Paul: Day 9

Grant, we pray, O Lord our God, that we may be sustained by the intercession of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, that, as through them you gave your Church the foundations of her heavenly office, so through them you may help her to eternal salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives […]

Novena to Saints Peter and Paul: Day 8

O holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, I choose you this day and forever to be my special patrons and advocates; thee, Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, because thou art the Rock, upon which Almighty God hath built His Church; thee, Saint Paul, because thou wast fore-chosen by God as the Vessel of election and […]

Novena to Saints Peter and Paul: Day 7

Novena to Saints Peter and Paul: Day 6

Novena to Saints Peter and Paul: Day 5