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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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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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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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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Tu Es Petrus, Part 2: “Do you love me?”
The dialogue between Jesus and Peter that I examined in the first part of this letter is not the only time that Jesus questions Peter with the hope of revealing something to him. For anyone
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Tu Es Petrus: Part 1
Brothers and sisters, Today marks exactly one month from the time I left the United States. What a blessed time, filled with difficulties and struggles which are pushed aside by the overwhelming presence of the
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Rome #6: Double Cream and the Return
And 18 days and 6 countries, 3 currencies, 6 languages (Luxembourg had 3 “official” languages!) later, we are back in Italy now for the foreseeable future. Our next scheduled trip is not until well into
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Rome #3: Buen Camino
––– Hello from Portamarina, Spain! We just finished day 1 of the Camino and what a wild ride it’s been. We have met people from all over the world and I’ve tried many new foods.Â
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Rome #2: Charlotte
Greetings from North Carolina! The eight of us left the seminary in St. Paul this morning at the tender time of 4am to head to the airport and start our journey to the Eternal City.
