I was in high school at a Steubenville Youth Conference in Ohio. It came time for some Saturday night Eucharistic Adoration. In other words, Jesus,
O Gracious Lord Jesus, I, a sinner, presuming not on my own merits, but trusting in thy goodness and mercy, fear and tremble in drawing
Last year, during a Secular Franciscan formation gathering, participants reflected on what we would call our Portiuncula—our own “Little Portion”. The exercise was creative, especially
The challenge of how to fix the Church in the 21st century is both material and spiritual, as St. Francis of Assisi discovered when he
Does it sound “off” to say that Christ waits for us, hidden in the tabernacle in church? He abides in every Catholic cathedral, basilica, parish,
This past Tuesday, I came to Chapel fairly early to allow time to change the altar cloth and ambo covering back to green. It has
G. K. Chesterton remarked once that the Catholic Church is larger on the inside than it appears from the outside. Saints come from all
