I. Spring breaks the solitude of winter Splinters of ice dripping drops which dare not stop in the sparkling sun a light that stands in between sips of chill and the hum of new life, air that tastes like a...

This homily was written as a class exercise for the Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (September 22, 2013) Readings for the Sunday can be found at http://usccb.org/bible/readings/092213.cfm When Mother Teresa first entered the slums of Calcutta, she didn’t come...

Recently, I had the privilege of participating in a leadership training program. One aspect of this program was the identification and understanding of disposition types. Naturally, such a program raises a series of issues about the relationship between our nature...

One of the misconceptions about our spiritual life is the disconnect between our spiritual purification in this world and the continuation of that purification in the next. Often, when people have problems with the idea of purgatory it is precisely...

It is not just enough to know about God. Holiness is tied to a deep and intimate knowledge of God, a loving familiarity with our Lord in which we have internalized who He is. It is similar to getting to...

There is a nothing intertwined with these somethings there is an everything that cannot be grasped in a sign reveals itself in realities below the surface, more real than the fragments of reality, but somehow, some way both in all...

The Exchange between lover and beloved As soft as the whispering of a poem into the ear of a windy night As often as rain drops falling in the midst of the storm In the midst of this familiarity, this...

In many of the contemporary debates around sexual morality, it seems as though the conversations always begin in the middle. Instead of jumping into one of these debates, I want to explore the good news that the Catholic Church proposes...

The following is a meditation on Song of Songs 1:2b It is a common experience that the person who is in love finds the delight of love to be similar to being intoxicated. The strong emotions of love pull us...