One of the phrases I have liked the least in youth ministry is “unconditional love.” At first, my discomfort with the phrase and the concept was that is what not particularly theological nor scriptural. This agitation has been in the...

Modern man yearns to be reintegrated within himself and within his environment. The foundational experience of younger generations is a disjointed and unintegrated environment in which the natural law has been so deconstructed that the dominant culture is one of...

The fundamental characteristic of the modern era is the “turn towards the subject.” This is both the fundamental error of modern thought and the potential for growth that God ordained in his wisdom. While the Medieval synthesis of Aquinas and...

Obligation is not a bad word. It is a good word because the obligations we embrace are the direction we guide our passions, and thus our love. The emotion of love must be oriented towards that which is good and...

This precise moment, with all its imperfections and plots and human frailty, is God’s most perfect will. By his active and permissive will, God has ordained the circumstances of your life and of the world for the salvation of your...

The first thing we must do is declare war. We must embrace the idea that we are surrounding by enemies from within and from without. Our primary enemies lie within, in the working of our thoughts, feelings, desires. Our interior...

I have noticed the past few years my ability to motivate and inspire high schoolers and college students has greatly increased (not to mention my outreach to young men). I think this is in part that I have really started...

The heights of holiness are not visions or locutions, but the profoundly simple gaze of infused contemplation, what scripture and the saints call wisdom, the contemplation of the divine essence. St. John of the Cross advises people to discard visions...