Building a Culture of Vocations is not about recruitment to ordained ministry or religious life but about exploring and responding to the call that God has placed in ones heart. This can only lead to fullness of life. Along with being named pastor of St. Willibrord’s parish last September, I have also been named co-vocations [...]

A friend has asked, what are we supposed to do during Lent? How is one to Fast? What is Ash Wednesday about and What particular things can one do for Lent? On matters of fasting and abstinence Ash Wednesday and Good Friday of the Easter Triduum are days of fasting and abstinence. Fasting consists of [...]

Doesn’t being A Christian mean somehow that we have met the risen Christ, that we live now not just for him, but with Him? Every Easter season we read the passage of Luke’s Gospel about two disciples on their way to Emmaus, a town outside Jerusalem. This Gospel account is about a journey that often [...]

A comment on the parable of the pharisee and the publican (Lc 18, 9-14) Part of the reflections I offer have been adapted from a text by Fr. Luis de Moya, a paraplegic priest who lives in Pamplona, Spain. In 1991 he fell asleep at the wheel and was left paralyzed from the neck down. [...]

Have you ever wondered why some children seem to have been born neat, while others leave a tornado in their wake? Why are some people always upbeat and optimistic, their glass “half full,” while others seem to be enveloped in a black cloud, their glass always “half empty”? For some, no passing thought goes unexpressed, [...]

What the sacrament of Confirmation is, and isn’t.