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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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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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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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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“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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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
