One of the great honors I have had since the ripe young age of 10 is to serve during many Masses, namely at my home parish of St. Anne in Oswego but also, since being
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What I learned from Ben Breedlove.
On Christmas Day, a young man from Austin, Texas suffered a heart attack and passed away. The heart attack was the result from this young man’s life-long battle with a heart condition known as Hypertrophic
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Waiting in Joyful Hope, Part III
Friends, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â My best wishes in this Second Week of Advent. I am writing this on December 6, although who honestly knows when it will be posted. Today is, in any case, the day the
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Waiting in Joyful Hope, Part II
Brothers and Sisters, Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. My thanks to you on the vast and varied feedback on my last post. I submit this to you, from Way of the
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Waiting in joyful hope…
People of God, A blessed Advent. I will be trying to do a series of these devotions based on a book I’m reading throughout this season.  I have always had a strong devotion to the
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Do this in memory of Me…
Hi everyone; I had the priviledge to have Mass tonight with some people from St. Jude’s in New Lenox. The group was a lot smaller than I expected it to be, but I still got
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Home
People of God, I am home now from seminary on UST’s fall break. Sorry I haven’t posted in about two months, but blogs are frowned upon at the seminary. I miss hearing from you all
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9/11 Irony
Hello all. Just getting ready to head off to bed before the 5:30am wake up here at SJV. Things are still rockin and I’m still having a blast. On retreat, one of the priests here
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At the Ranch
Hello! Big news, everyone: I have survived one week and one day at seminary! Ordination will be here any day now! 😉 This place is awesome. The rector is one heck of a guy and