Marco Casanova
Created for Communion
By Marco Casanova I’m made for communion. Love calls me into relationship. Learning to reveal hard emotions to Ania has become my...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
Made New, Together
‘When You send Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the earth.’ (PS 104:30) The branches are beckoning. Two peach trees I...
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Marco Casanova
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
At Pride’s End, Boasting Only in the Broken Body of Christ
By Marco Casanova I came to Mass wearied. Not surprised that Pride Month intensifies familiar vulnerabilities, I wanted reprieve. I felt...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 24, 2022
- 1 min
TOBI Statement on SCOTUS Roe v. Wade Decision
We rejoice in this decision! Statement by TOB Institute President Dr. Christopher West on Today’s SCOTUS Decision on Roe v. Wade The...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
Holy Resistance
‘In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood’ (Heb. 12:4). Guys tend to be soft these...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 16, 2022
- 3 min
Pope Francis Urges LGBTQ+ Community to Repent in the Power of the Holy Spirit
I’ve been waiting all my Catholic life for this. In response to Fr. Martin’s questions about how the Church should respond to the rainbow...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
Optical Illusion
Building A Bridge film review How you tell a story can cover a multitude of sins. Watching Amazon’s documentary on a-not-very-good-book...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 14, 2022
- 3 min
Winter Wheat
‘Those who go out weeping, carrying seeds to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them’ (Ps. 126:6). As we prepped...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
Weep, Don’t Weaponize
At first I was angry. How could parents do this to a beloved child? Framed in their Christmas greeting, the parents beam upon 3-year-old...
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Marco Casanova
- Jan 12, 2022
- 3 min
‘New Ways’? No Way
By Marco Casanova Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
Day 38: Freedom for the World
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Abigail Foard
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
Day 36: Beauty of Her Devotion
By Abbey Foard DSM Executive Director St. Thomas Aquinas’ (1225-1274) hymn, Adoro te Devote, captured me with its melody when I heard it...
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Marco Casanova
- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min
Day 32: Freedom to Forge Community
By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director A couple of years ago, Andrew and I were running a half-marathon. On route, we passed my midtown...
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Marco Casanova
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Day 24: Freedom and Responsibility
By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Close the Gap
‘You see the trouble we are in…in ruins, our gates burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall…and we will no longer be in disgrace’...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
Battle Breaks Open
German Catholic bishops and lay persons voted last week to adopt a resolution (168 to 28) to bless same-sex relationships in the national...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Discover ‘Freedom of the Gift’ with Us!
Freedom figures in big to the Gospel: Jesus declares that His truth ‘sets us free’, fully and completely, while St. Paul declares to us...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Intimate Authority, Transformed and Sent
Original entry date: June 14, 2013 in our Mid-Year Newsletter On her Feast Day, I recall that St. Mary Magdalene is considered by the...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Freedom From Sin is Freedom for Life
Original Entry Date: October 21, 2014 ‘The Cross becomes a new center of gravity for bringing together what is divided.’ Pope Emeritus...
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Marco Casanova
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
Cleansing this Father
Jesus unflinchingly washes the feet of His friends. He cleans them up to send them out. Jesus stoops to wash my filthy feet. He falls to...
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