Living Monstrance

Before I left for Maryland last August to begin with the Franciscans, I had a large image of the Divine Mercy that I wanted to give away.  I had it framed and given to my local parish.  When I came back in February, I looked around the church and didn’t notice it so I asked the [...]

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Right now, my mother has been at home struggling with cancer.  There have been ups and downs, good and bad, but we are all making it, and the Lord is doing great things in our midst.
One of the problems we face is her eating.  Her appetite hasn’t been good, so we have to be creative [...]

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Isn’t it true that everyone wants to be someone, but no one wants to be a no one?  We sort of think that way, that we must be a “one” and not a “zero”, not a nothing.  We are supposed to be all that we can be, a fulfilled, satisfied “someone”.
Aren’t we?
I think that when [...]

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For over 10 years I tutored high school students in my local town in math and physics.  It is a privilege to help out young people who are struggling with their studies.  I would go to their home and help them with their latest homework.  I met some wonderful families, and some were friends already.
One [...]

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Did you ever notice that Mary has a long list of different titles in the Church?  There’s Queen of Apostles, Star of the Sea, Our Lady of Victories, Mother of Mercy, and the list seems to go on forever.  And did you notice that she seems to change in appearance, too?  Her shrines depict her [...]

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I recently picked up my brother from the airport, and as we drove home to my parents’ house, he suggested that he take out the new GPS that he had used on his trip to Washington, DC, for me to play with.  “You can put in anything, like a list of restaurants, and it will [...]

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I had the great privilege to go to Rome a few years ago and visit a friend in school there.  Rome is a mysterious city.  It has a mixture of pagan, medieval, and modern architecture and artifacts.  It also has a lot of smog because of those Euro-scooters that so many people over there drive.  [...]

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At my first job as a young engineer, I had the privilege to work with some very smart and talented engineers from MIT at a company in Cambridge, Mass.  I got to work on very advanced technical projects that I couldn’t explain to my family and friends.  It was literally rocket science.
When I got an [...]

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