A Simple and Public Act of Faith
“Our behavior will be the proving ground of our deepest convictions. This firmness in the Faith is often an excellent testimony to the beliefs of the Christian. In some cases it can cause people to...
View ArticleSix Ideas for Reclaiming Your Calendar
As busy people with compounding responsibilities, isn’t it becoming more and more difficult to find time just to think? Commiserating with colleagues and friends, we share how our workdays are filled...
View ArticleFive Steps to Better Parenting
“Dad, can we throw the football?” The fall football season is in full swing and this is an almost daily request from my 12 year old son during the week when I get home from work and it is repeated...
View ArticleLesson One in Prayer
Let’s get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer. The single most important piece of advice I know about prayer is also the simplest: Just do it! How to do it is less important than...
View ArticleThe Challenges and Joys of Modern Fatherhood
Sometimes I can almost imagine myself as a great father to my children… then I do something to mess it up. I vividly recall a past October when the boys and I welcomed my wife home from a five-day trip...
View ArticleThe Difference an Hour Can Make
On Monday of this week I had to work for part of the day to meet a few clients, tie up loose ends for the year and do some preparation for 2014. It was challenging to be pulled away from my family...
View ArticleDr. Kreeft Responds to the Culture’s Objections to Heaven
Heaven Even the skeptic who does not believe in heaven has a heaven-shaped heart. The deck is stacked and the dice are loaded, loaded with the love of heaven. Amor meus, pondus meum, said Augustine:...
View ArticleFour Critical Principles for Catholic Fathers
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” (Pope St. John XXIII) I often feel completely lost and befuddled as a Catholic father in today’s world. How do I...
View ArticleCatholic Quote of the Day — from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His Love — and the telling of it was Creation. Love overflowed. Eternity moved and said to time: “Begin.” Omnipotence moved and said to nothingness: “Be.”...
View ArticleA Checklist for Catholic Dads
I have had numerous conversations over the years with other Catholic dads about the challenges of raising kids in today’s world. The discussions usually center on the bad cultural influences affecting...
View ArticleA Courageous Young Man and a Loving Parish
On a Sunday not long ago, I had an opportunity to witness a very special moment at my parish. A seventeen-year-old man with high-functioning autism was taking his first turn as a lector at the 7:30...
View ArticleOn Fatherly Influence and Practical Lessons
I was blessed to grow up with great parents. We didn’t have much, but my parents made sure my sister and I had love, discipline, faith, strong values, and an appreciation for the value of hard work. My...
View ArticleTithing: Making Time, Talent, and Treasure Servants to Your Spiritual Leadership
“The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under...
View ArticleRedirecting my Gratitude
“If God sends you many sufferings, it is a sign that He has great plans for you and certainly wants to make you a saint.” (St. Ignatius Loyola) I woke up last Tuesday not feeling very grateful. I am...
View ArticleGod is Asking Something Heroic of Us
“The disciple of Christ consents to ‘live in the truth,’ that is, in the simplicity of a life in conformity with the Lord’s example, abiding in his truth. ‘If we say we have fellowship with him while...
View ArticleExtraordinary Faith from Ordinary Catholics
“In the doctrine of Christ there is no invitation to mediocrity, but a clear call to Heaven, to love and to cheerful sacrifice.” (Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God) Feeling let down by...
View ArticleLesson One in Prayer
Let’s get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer. The single most important piece of advice I know about prayer is also the simplest: Just do it! How to do it is less important than...
View ArticleAbide with me, Lord
Deep within each of us is a hunger and thirst. For some, the feeling is so strong that it is never quite out of mind. For others, the feeling is repressed and hardly noticed, although it remains a part...
View ArticleOn Living Intentionally
“Will-power. A very important quality. Don’t despise little things, for by the continual practice of denying yourself again and again in such things—which are never futile or trivial—with God’s grace...
View ArticleCatholic Quote of the Day — from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His Love—and the telling of it was Creation. Love overflowed. Eternity moved and said to time: “Begin.” Omnipotence moved and said to nothingness: “Be.”...
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