What would you give up for God?
As the bus curved down a treacherous hill in the pouring rain, I wondered, “What are we doing here?!” Yes, it had been 10 months since I saw…
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Category: Family & Vocation
Faith lived in home and calling.
Delving Deep in History Brought Me Home
The Coming Home Network International recently published an abbreviated version of my conversion story in their monthly newsletter and online at their website. I decided to reproduce the article…
Are You Making an Effort?
When I was a child, Christmas meant decorations inside the house and lights strung outside on the eaves and bushes, gifts under the tree, and Midnight Mass. The…
But Are You Listening?
Recently, Father Mike Schmitz at Ascension Presents said in one of his videos that All unasked for advice is criticism. Wow. I’m constantly doling out the benefit of…
God’s Significant Extremes
Well, the holidays are just barely off the radar and it’s probably time for you to answer this question: How comfortable were you in the middle of the…
A reason, a season, a lifetime
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (Jn 15:13) I love the saying, “People come into our lives for a…
Mary, Mother of God
Readings for Sunday, Jan 1 the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God The mother of the messiah has been called many things in the last 2000 years…
The Holy Family
Readings for the Feast of the Holy Family The Passion of the Christ was the most intense movie I’ve ever seen. But there was a moment of comic…
Welcoming a Child
Then [Jesus] took a child and had him stand in front of them. He put his arms around him and said to them, “Whoever welcomes in my name…
Monseigneur Robert Hugh Benson, Novelist
A gifted novelist, essayist, and evangelizer, Robert Hugh Benson was born the youngest son of Edward White Benson and his wife Mary. Edward was an English Anglican priest.…