A Feast for All Franciscans
November 29th is the special day dedicated to all the Franciscans who are now born into eternal life. Every year our Franciscan Order reserves...
Humility and the First Sunday of Lent
When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time (Lk. 4:13). ⧾
On Ash Wednesday we began our observance...
Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Yes, it's Guy Fawkes Day, when the English people of a certain religious persuasion - or of none...
And the Two Shall Become One: The Matrimonial Nature of the Holy Mass.
(In the midst of our troubled world, we must keep hope alive, and that includes a celebration of marriages, which is our most foundational...
Big data and the Birth of Christ
From the information superhighway to artificial intelligence to contact tracing for COVID-19, ours is certainly the era of “big data.”
“Big data” might seem like...
Gregor Mendel, Priest and Scientist
Gregor Mendel of Austria (1822-1884) was a young priest in the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austria, who in his spare time...
Fourteenth Sunday: Ite Missa Est!
See I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves (Lk. 10:3). ⧾
The commission of the seventy disciples to go and...
Doubting Thomas and the Nature of Faith
Today is the feast of Saint Thomas, the Apostle, who gets a bit of a bad rap as 'doubting' Thomas, a term is that...
Timely Words from a Far Off Place
(On this feast of the Holy Family, in my breakfast reading, I stumbled across this homily from Pope Saint John Paul II which he...
The Eucharist and Gratitude
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the...
