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DETACHMENT

There’s been this Catholic Men’s Movement that first started maybe a decade ago called Exodus 90.  I believe it began at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, where a group of men preparing for the priesthood decided…

WHEN GOD SPEAKS

One of the unique experiences of being a priest is wearing the Roman Collar out in public.   A couple of weeks ago, two priest friends and I happened to be out for breakfast, and some…

RESPECT

On the smartphone App "Hallow," a Catholic Biblical Scholar named Jeff Cavins offers his reflections on the scriptures heard at daily Mass.  This past Friday, his thoughts were on the importance of Evangelization: how essential…

2024- WHAT’S IN YOUR HEART?

Probably one of the most difficult things, hardest things, challenging things for us as human beings to do in life is “letting go” of old hurts.   How often have we heard someone say, or even…

JOY

Merry Christmas! - it's amazing the joy that simply saying those two words can bring.  But what does that one word, Joy, really mean?  For most of us, our Christmas memories, experiences, or expectations are…

“…THE LIGHT ANSWERS”

Growing up, my Jewish friends and I would invariably get into the annual "Who's got the Better Holiday" competition between Hanukkah and Christmas around this time.  They would share extraordinary stories of how, during the…

PROPHETIC VOICES

Forecasts, predictions, prophecies.  We can treat all of those words as basically the same things - telling us what will happen.  The meteorologist on the weather channel gives us the 7-day forecast of temperatures, the…

TOO BIG TO FAIL

While it may have been used before, the phrase "too big to fail" wasn't as familiar to most individuals until 2007-2008.  That's when the Banks in the United States and around the world found themselves…