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Thoughts about God and the meaning of life clothed in the language of a Catholic priest and pastor on Long Island.
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Members of His Household | The Monday After
We are God's children now, no longer dogs on the street. We once lived by instinct and appetite alone, but now we live by God's Spirit, which illumina...
Can we accept the truth about God? | The Monday After
If we would be truly wise, yes. By God's grace, a man can surrender his gold for the treasures offered to us in Christ, his frankincense for the true...
Is it okay to ask God for signs? | The Monday After
Believing in miracles is essential to our Faith, since the Sacraments are all miracles. But it's still more important to ask what God may be trying to...
The Monday After | Saint Joseph, A Good Parent
I suppose most parents will say to their children, "You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up," but I don't imagine that Our Lady and Saint...
The Monday After | Knowledge of Mary, The Golden Key in a Red Bag
A little boy came to me after Mass yesterday, showing me a gold key in a red bag. It turned out to be a good way of understanding the intercession of...
The Monday After | Knowledge of Jesus
An unexpected introduction to a man and his son at a Christmas party has led me to a deeper knowledge of Jesus. I begin and end this 3rd Advent reflec...
The Monday After | Knowledge of The Self
Last week, we spoke of emptying ourselves of the spirit of the world in order to make room for the Holy Spirit. In this episode, we'll move into a wor...
The Monday After | Emptying Ourselves of the Spirit of the World
This is the first part of a four-week spiritual preparation for Christmas, beginning with a word (based on the Mass readings for the First Sunday of A...
The Monday After | From One Happy Thief to Another on the Feast of Christ the King
The Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to implore all people - especially leaders of totalitarian states - to allow Chri...
The Monday After | Should We Be Afraid?
The title's a bit click-baity, but it was either that or "Sure Feels Like the End Sometimes," which also seemed a bit of a ploy. In any case, this Sun...
The Monday After | I Could Be Wrong - Thank God
I propose, in this homily, a way of understanding the kind of help that Jesus is trying to offer us. It seems to me that he dwells in us in order to h...
The Monday After | on Purgatory and Waiting with Beatific Vision
We do not like waiting. Well, in any case, we're not good at it, which is obvious; in this age of invention we've all but eliminated the need to wait...
The Monday After | How Could He Ask Emily for Help?
The title of this episode is a reference to the film, The Crossing Guard, which I mention toward the end of the reflection in the hope of illustrating...
The Monday After | Pants Always Beats No Pants
Looking forward to the end of time with hope requires conceiving of our lives by the Holy Spirit in light of the promises God makes to us in the Scrip...
The Monday After | About a Girl at The Bar
If being together at Mass on Sundays is called "practicing the Faith" that means the world is our playing field, which means that Christ is training u...
The Monday After | All Beneath the Mulberry Tree
The root system of the mulberry tree is deep and complicated, not unlike the human heart, the ground beneath our feelings and emotions. It's a great t...
The Monday After | Where is His Victory?
Sometimes we walk too far behind Christ, weighed down by regret. And sometimes we walk too far ahead, worried about the future. But the person in fron...
The Monday After | Beyond the Truman Show: the Catholic Vision of Reality
So much of this world is man-made that it's a lot like The Truman Show. But Christ comes into our lives, like Sylvia into Truman's, emboldening us, by...
The Monday After | The Necessary Evil of Handing Over the Son
Treatments like chemotherapy, for example, are in some ways similar to Christ's death on the cross; they are necessary evils; one heals cancer, the ot...
The Monday After | Always First Death
Dealing with God will always mean dying to that part of us that resists seeing things from his perspective.
The Monday After | Paradox or Contradiction
This is the first episode of a new segment called, "The Monday After," offering a series of reflections following the Sunday Mass.
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 20 | Humanity | Epilogue
This is the conclusion of a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recor...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 19 | Faith
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 18 | Humility
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 17 | The Kingdom of God
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 16 | Freedom
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 15 | The Fear of Death
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 14 | Retreats
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 13 | The Meaning of the Mass
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 12 | The Apostolate
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 11 | The Priesthood
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 10 | Work
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 9 | The Body
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 8 | In Transit
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He Leadeth Me | Chapter 7 | Four Years of Purgatory
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 6 | The Interrogations
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 5 | Lubianka
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 4 | Arrest and Imprisonment
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 3 | Russia
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...
He Leadeth Me | Chapter 2 | The Decision to Enter Russia
This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...