At some point this Spring Dear Diane and I realized it had been about three years since we’d taken a vacation (not counting spiritual retrea...

Readings: 1 Cor 1:26-31 • Psalm 33 • Matthew 25:14-30 __________________ Today we celebrate the memorial of St. Monica, the mother of St. ...

Every so often I come across something that just strikes me as perfect. The other day a friend sent me the following prayer, apparently comp...

Readings: Dn 7:15-27 ; Dn 3; Luke 21:34-36 Here I am, only a couple of years from 80, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a time when anxiety...

St. Jerome was born in Dalmatia around the year 340. Twenty years later he traveled to Rome where he was baptized. In Rome and in Trier, Ger...

A few years ago Diane and I spent a long weekend in St. Augustine, Florida. We stayed at the St. Francis Inn , an absolutely wonderful B...

Readings: Gen 3:9-15; Ps 87; John 19:25-34 ---------------------------------- Today we celebrate a rather new feast, the Memorial of the Ble...

Readings: Gn 8:6-13, 20-22• Psalm 116 • Mk 8:22-26 ---------------------- I can't speak for anyone else, but my conversion has been a l...

“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you...You were with me, and I was not with you...You called and cri...

St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Over 1,600 years ago St. Augustine wrote his masterpiece, The City of God , in which he strove to convinc...