I’m all about CBS’ show Criminal Minds. Always have been. Although I must admit that being in college with limited access to TV and no time for Netflix caused an unfortunate lapse in my keeping
Articles & Homilies
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Love Speaks
We Have Yet to Expand
I’ll admit that I sometimes worry about the future of the Church, especially in America – and, for the record, it’s not only because God-willing as a priest I’ll someday be a leader of it. It troubles
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Love Speaks
Into Great Silence: SERIOUSLY 8 DAYS OF SILENCE? ARE YOU CRAZY?
Since the beginning of Christendom, silence has been a part of the great spiritual tradition of the Church. Today, the world sees this pretty much only in the example of the contemplative religious who spend
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Love Speaks
Again, a Graduate.
And so, four years later we’re all at it again. Graduation. “Commencement exercises”: The exercise of commencing the next chapter of our lives and all of the sappy rhetoric and teary goodbyes these events imply.Â
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Love Speaks
Did the Devil still win?
Ok, duh, of course not. The devil never wins. 1 Corinthians 15:57 suggests that we’ll always be victorious if we continue to follow Christ. No doubt, it’s incredibly awesome that the planned Satanic black Mass
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Love Speaks
Holy Week Language Practice
Helloooo! I was bored a couple of night’s ago and thought I’d practice a little bit of my second favorite language, French! Here’s a brief reflection on Holy Week and Easter that I wrote in
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Love Speaks
“Return to me, rebellious children,” says the Lord.
So seminarians and priests (and lots of other people, too) pray what the Church calls the Liturgy of the Hours out of a book called a breviary 5 times a day (Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Daytime
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Love Speaks
Prayer of the Little King
You ask of me not mediocrity, but greatness. Help me to see where my heart is weary, indifferent, or unclean. Wake me up. Make me holy. Heal me. Deliver Me. Rescue Me. Sanctify me. Mend
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Love Speaks
Rome: Academia
I’m sitting here during our “study hours” (one of the joys of being a seminarian) in the library of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, thinking about all of you back in Oswego with grateful
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Love Speaks
Tu Es Petrus, Part 3: My Father’s Shoulders
MY FATHER’S SHOULDERS Blessed Pope John XXIII There is an attraction to Blessed Pope John XXIII which I still cannot explain and it has been my search for an answer to this problem which has
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