Just In Time
This blog was most easily written as a letter to my children and grandchildren–please know all its readers are my extended family in Our Lord! “God comes to us in the things we know best and can verify most easily,…
EPHPHATHA–“Be Opened”
“Let the Lord enter; he is the king of glory” (Ps 24) “Let the Lord enter…”–such a plea from the psalmist’s heart to our hearts in this weekday Mass Responsorial, read as Advent unfolds into Christmas. Our parish has been engaged…
Moment to Moment With The Bridegroom
During the homily at the closing Mass of a recent Theology of the Body Institute week which delved into God’s beauties, Father Ryan Mann marveled at how the presenter, that very morning at breakfast, had seen the wealth of a…
Praying With The Holy Name
I will be forever grateful for my Jesuit graduate school professor, Father William Walsh, and the many “take-homes” of his Spiritual Theology course five-plus decades ago. “Why tune the violin after the concert?” he’d say. “I promise you that if…
The Gift of Attunement
It is the unexpected “kisses from heaven,” simple, sweet, and spontaneous, that can open doors to Jesus’ heart, to His and Mother’s, and to the hungers of our own. I had such a gift very recently. During the “check-in” at…
Our Yes, Wrapped in Mary’s
I came into my weekly Adoration hour this morning brimming with family concerns–this adult child facing a life-altering decision; that grandchild stricken with intractable physical pain; a sister braving brutal chemo; a nephew profoundly lost. And those are just starters… …
The Bridegroom’s Plea
“Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her Beloved?” (SoS. 8:5) Decades ago, reading Father Jean D’Elbee’s “I Believe in Love,” I was stopped cold by two words. Two simple words. The story went that St. Margaret…
Coming Home in November
I love the month of November. The macrocosm reflecting the microcosm, as Shakespeare’s works so often displayed–nature and the travels of our hearts in perfect sync. Here in Lancaster County, PA, the pre-Thanksgiving fall is ever so poignant now in its…
Our Guardian Angels and Our Holy Imagination
For he commands His Angels with regard to you, to guard you wherever you go. With their hands they shall support you, lest you strike your foot against a stone. (Ps. 91:11- 12) The worth of souls is so great…
Jesus, First My Brother
“You ravish my heart, my sister, my bride, you ravish my heart with one glance of your eyes….How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride.” (SOS 4:9-10). “O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at…
The Treasure of Hiddenness
“Be intent on things above rather than on things of earth. After all, you have died! Your life is hidden now with Christ in God. When Christ our life appears, then you shall appear with him in glory” (Col. 3:2)…
Put Out Into The Deep
“At present I believe, but in the glory to come…what appears to me at present so perplexing, so foolish, so inconsistent…will all be entrancing, and will delight me eternally by the beauty, order, knowledge, wisdom, and incomprehensible wonders it will…
