“Today God still speaks to us as he used to speak to our ancestors at a time when there were neither spiritual directors nor any systems of spirituality. To be faithful to the designs of God then comprised the whole of one’s spiritual life. Religious devotion had not become a science crammed with precepts...
Note: The following reflection was written for Catholic Schools Week 2011 as part of a series for ACE Advocates for Catholic Schools. When I taught Amy she was a bright, athletic, beaming eighth grader. She loved her older sister, her younger brother, and playing soccer. A short two years later, her body was ravaged...
An old Russian proverb says that God writes straight with crooked lines. Anyone who has taught in Catholic schools knows the truth of this. You can spend hours and hours on a lesson, only to have it fall apart in front of you in the classroom. And then the next day, after a lesson...
Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City and Deacon Greg Kandra of Brooklyn have recently challenged us to not lose sight of the importance of the Advent season. Bishop Wester even went so far as to make it the subject of his first pastoral letter to the people of Salt Lake City. Titled “Waiting...
I’m currently reading Dante’s Divine Comedy, which begins with these somber words: “Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.” I think there are a lot of people who feel this same way today. We can feel...
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