Living Monstrance

I was recently visiting friends who have two children.  It is beautiful and amazing to see children grow into their own personalities.
After we all had dinner together, we went into the living room and their little daughter Maura began to show us all how she can now write.  She took her seat in the little [...]

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April Fool’s Day is a good day to hear about fools.  Let me tell you about two.
The first fool entered a Subway shop with his friends one day.  He proceeded to gather all of his friends, his fellow customers, and all the employees into one giant circle in the middle of the sub shop and [...]

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For a few months as a Franciscan, I lived in Lawrence, the poorest city in Massachusetts.  It’s a perfect place to be with the Lord.
One little 5-yr-old girl in the neighborhood, Darlene, had come to look up to me as a friar.  Whenever the friars had functions for the neighborhood children, she always stayed close [...]

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I used to volunteer in a hospital in Boston as a Minister of Holy Communion.  It is a great privilege.  After several years, I began to also pray the Divine Mercy chaplet for dying patients in the hospital.  The Lord always seemed to find a way for me to reach the very sick and dying [...]

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Emmanuel. Emmanuel means, “God with us”. What does this mean?
As a postulant with a Franciscan community for a time, I was privileged to be able to assist the brothers with some of their apostolate. For the week before Christmas, some of the friars did a parish mission for a church in Virginia called St. Louis [...]

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St. John the Baptist was probably Jesus’ closest friend.  How do I know this?  Because John the Baptist was the best man at the Lord’s wedding: “He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom’s voice.” (Jn 3:29)
And [...]

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