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‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses’ (Acts 1:8). Easter primes us with the oil of...

‘When the disciples were together, with doors blocked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said: “Peace be with...

For Catholics, Protestants, and anyone in between, Immerse: a night of worship, prayer, and ministry. Join us at Our Lady of Good...

‘Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.’ -Oswald Chambers How dependent am I on Jesus? Fickle, at best. Yes, I...

For all who thirst, immerse. Come to the waters issuing from the altar of Our Lady of Good Counsel parish. A mercy pool awaits you, smack...

‘The time has come—the Kingdom is here. Repent and believe the good news!’ (Mk. 1:15) At our Living Waters wrap up party last week, one...

‘Our commitment on issues of human sexuality [and every other area] are guided by Christ’s commandment to love and to stand in solidarity...

‘Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is...

I am a zealous father but not a very well-rounded one. I don’t like professional sports (my kids mock Dad’s half-hearted efforts to cheer...

The Holy Family: Joseph, Mary and Jesus. Wow. As I reflect on this holy trio, I wonder: “How in the world could we ever imagine living a...

The bright white carpet in our rental highlighted the dirt strewn all over it by our 2-year-old Nick back in the late-eighties; it seems...

The Lord inhabits humble, barren spaces. His very presence sanctifies them. A shepherd’s pasture becomes a contact point for divine...

‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...

‘To begin with: for Thomas Aquinas it is plainly self-evident--indeed so self-evident that it need hardly be mentioned even to those but...

‘The primary and essential meaning of temperance…is this: to dispose various parts into one unified and ordered whole.’ (The Four...

‘To be patient means to preserve cheerfulness and serenity of mind in spite of injuries that result from the realization of the good....

‘To be brave actually means to be able to suffer injury. Because man is by nature vulnerable, he can be brave.’ (The Four Cardinal...

‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...

‘Justice is the virtue which enables man to give to each one his due.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 44) ‘We cannot state...

‘This truth of real things…is contained in the true-to-being-memory. The true-to-being character of memory means simply that it...