Digital Reminders
Isn't technology wonderful? This past week, I had a unique experience with my iPhone. Last Saturday I woke up and I had this notification on my lock screen: “Jim’s birthday is today? Call him?” followed by the phone icon. I [...]
January 2019
What it takes to be a Saint?
A cursory look at the life of Saint Léonie Aviat can mislead us into thinking that her road to holiness was easy. After all, she grew up in a loving, middle class French family. Their home was across the street [...]
October 2018
How to Pray Constantly
In the gospels, when the Sadducees asked Jesus, “What do I have to do to obtain eternal life? Which is the greatest commandment?” Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, [...]
August 2018
St. Jane de Chantal
August 12: Feast of Saint Jane de Chantal. Saint Jane’s advice to the Visitation Sisters at Nevers: A soul abandoned completely to Divine Providence desires only God and is detached from all but him: there is no eventuality that [...]
July 2018
Wheat Among the Weeds
One of my favorite parables of Jesus is the one about the wheat and the weeds. It begins with a farmer who plants wheat. At night an enemy comes and sows weeds in the wheat. As the wheat grew up, [...]
Saints are Sinners Too
“All creatures – being a mixture, as it were, of perfection and imperfection – have been used by the Scripture to teach us about both good and evil. There is not one from which we cannot draw an analogy to [...]