When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Monday, September 25, 2017

Football, Fasting, and the Love of God

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I am agitated. I opened Facebook yesterday and found that everyone was all upset, again. This time everyone was upset by athletes who did ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Reflections on St Therese as a Revolutionary

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So today during my Carmelite formation meeting, we took in a talk by Fr. Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD on St. Therese as a spiritual revolutionary. ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Blessed Be God Who Filled My Soul With Fire!

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The title of this post was the Psalm response from today's Mass. I don't recall it from years past. It's my new favorite. The ...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Hypercompetence

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I'm seeing a negative tendency of mine surface again; I'll call it hypercompetence. I don't mean by this a special giftedness. I...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Work and Love

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I've always been a mix of the melancholic and choleric personalities. As I've aged I think I've flipped dominant characteristics...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The Apostles Fast, Day 3

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A few days ago I joined in the Apostles' Fast , which for several reasons feels a perfect fit in my life at the moment. Essentially I am...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Pulling Down Strongholds

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There is a type of injury that happens in religious formation that can, so to speak, blow out the bridge between a person and the truth. As ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

His Hour

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At the Holy Thursday Mass, I had one of those moments where the Scriptures exploded in my head in multiple directions at once. It was that...
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Sunday, April 09, 2017

Life-Changing Holy Week

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Five years ago, I experienced a Holy Week that changed my life. If I had known at the time what lay ahead of me, I probably would have bolte...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Teaching with the Sonshine Bible Club

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This academic year, I have taught Scripture lessons to groups of public school kids in an after-school program known as the Sunshine Bible C...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Retreat: St. Joseph

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This weekend I was on a retreat that focused on St. Joseph. My Carmelite community does a weekend retreat each year. This year actually le...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Praying God's Word

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Today's Mass readings ( found here ) bring forth one package to teach us about prayer. From my childhood, I read the passage from Isai...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

The Pilgrimage T-Shirt, and the Pursuit of Beauty

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This morning, my daughter was telling me about her desires. She loves beautiful things -- creating them and enjoying others' creations. ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Become a Disciple of Love

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Lately I have felt myself drawn back to a particular moment during last summer's pilgrimage to Poland. It was a moment of awareness abou...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Thoughts on Story of a Soul: Chapter III

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I'm reserving the right to be completely random and start a series of posts in the middle of a book. I've been through Story of a ...