Here is a link to today's readings. Have you ever been on a flight (or a bus, or a train, or a car) with a crying baby who wouldn't stop excercising his/her lungs the entire trip? Where brief respites of silence...
Here is a link to the Sunday readings. Here is a link to the Saint Joseph's Day readings (Monday). This year, the Church celebrates the 3rd Sunday of Lent on March 19th, the day normally designated for the celebration of St. Joseph....
Here is a link to today's readings. Today is also the Jewish festival of Purim, a celebration of a failed plot against the Jews as described in the Biblical book of Esther. Of all the legacies of Pope St. John Paul II,...
Click here for a link to this weekend's readings. “The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.” Although the scripture readings...
Here is a link to this week's readings. It would be difficult to forget the day my house burned down. I was walking home from middle school with my friend Jeff when we turned the last corner to my neighborhood and...
Here is a link to this weekend's readings. The last two days, I was away in Baltimore for the Mid-Atlantic Congress, "The MAC." Were any of you there? What a great annual event to share ideas about religious education and ministry!...
Here is a link to this weekend's readings. Today is World Marriage Day, and it follows the promulgation of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love). Since the document’s publication, almost all of the attention has focused on...
Here is a link to this weekend's readings Some of you know that to pay the bills as I finish up my doctoral program at Boston College I teach drivers’ education for a few hours every weekend. It’s also why I...
Here is a link to this weekend's readings. As we begin Catholic Schools Week, I’d like to focus on an issue that relates to the larger question of ecumenism we have been exploring. One of the big questions today in Catholic...
Here is a link to this weekend's readings. There is so much going on this weekend. A new president has been inaugurated. Protests of his presidency, especially marches for women’s rights, have swelled across the nation and on all seven continents....
