Today has been a blessed day full of surprises and the joy of celebrating… Mother Angelica’s 90th Birthday! We owe a great gratitude to each of you for your prayers, for the thoughtful cards and beautiful flowers sent to make this great celebration all the more joyous!  Although she cannot say this Thank You herself, [...]

Men of holiness are all too often portrayed as divorced from reality, existing on a plane apart from and above the banalities of everyday existence. However, holiness can only be defined and understood in the active rather than the passive voice is it not something done to us, but something that requires wholehearted participation both [...]

“Behold I make all things new…” Revelation 21:15   Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week.  The daily liturgy exposes us to the folly of Love Incarnate, preparing us to celebrate the day death was vanquished by Life itself.  Christ’s boundless generosity is almost frightening to us!  Yet the revelation of this generosity leaves [...]

    There was a perpetual instinct over these past few days to resort to a word that will only resurface on the Easter Vigil! Alle…. But a Te Deum fits just as well with the gaudium magnum, gratitude, wild excitement, etc. etc. after the election of our first ever Pope Francis! His first homily [...]

  Maybe when we get that overwhelming “I have enough on my plate” conviction, the temptation that suddenly arises can be to make a season like Lent into a minimalistic “practice.” Doesn’t it make perfect sense in all practicality? For Christ in the desert, after fasting forty days, wasn’t it time to finally eat? Wasn’t [...]