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Blessed Holy Thursday to all of you. My heart is so full as we gather to celebrate the Paschal Mystery of the Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection, starting tonight with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Tonight is our opportunity to give abundant thanks to the Lord for His two great gifts of the priesthood […]

The Holy Spirit put St. Maximilian Kolbe on my heart as I prayed with the wonderful readings the Church has given us to ponder this Palm Sunday. I recently received a beautiful statue of him from my friends David and Molly. The statue now greets me from the garden each time I come and go

I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was 18 years old and getting ready to head off to college to start a new chapter in my life. My life plan was all figured out: I would go and live in the dorms at OSU, study technology education, hopefully meet a nice Catholic girl,

Today we join Jesus in His battle against the wiles of Satan in the desert. In this account, it is important to recognize what Jesus is doing. Throughout His earthly journey, Jesus is retracing the steps of the people of Israel. But where the people of Israel collectively failed in the desert, Jesus now finds

An interesting thing happened when missionaries came to Japan in the 1860s. They thought they were entering a largely non-Christian country, but when they arrived, they discovered thousands of Catholics already there practicing their faith in secret, just waiting for a day when it would be possible to practice it openly. When the official government

Fr. Don Calloway is on my mind this weekend. He is a member of a religious order called the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. I’m going to tell you a short version of how he came to be a Catholic priest, but I encourage you to look up his story on YouTube. He tells

I am very blessed to have a pen pal who is a religious sister. First, for those of you too young to know what a pen pal is, there was a time before texting when friends who lived far apart would mail each other letters. This is obviously much less common these days, but I

This past week I relistened to the soundtrack of Les Miserables (‘Les Mis’ for short), a beautiful musical which deals with deep themes like love, self-sacrifice, and redemption. To this day, it remains one of my favorite musicals of all time. The music is phenomenal, the characters and stories are compelling and the overall message

When I think back on Christmas memories, few things stick out in my mind more than the feeling of coming down the stairs on Christmas morning. I don’t know about all of you, but the “Santa’s helpers” at my home on Christmas Eve always did such a phenomenal job of arranging the presents just so.

As we approach the end of our Advent preparation today, I’ve got one of my favorite saints in mind, technically a saint-to-be: Blessed Carlo Acutis. He will be formally canonized this coming Divine Mercy Sunday, and I can’t wait. He’s probably on my mind because of the Carlo Acutis socks that I got in a