Live what you teach

This past Saturday, we attended the ordination to the transitional deaconate of four high-caliber young men from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Between the joy that simply exploded from within them and the awesomeness of the sacrament itself, I was vacillating back and forth from tears to laughter to tears over Read more…

There are wives fretting over husbands and mothers fretting over sons buried in coal mines in China and West Virgina. The streets of Bangkok are being ravaged by civil unrest. Yet another earthquake has hit – this time in Sumatra. A colleague’s brother-in-law lay in the ICU, near death. And Read more…

Easter Reflection

This morning before Mass I took some treats over to the restaurant at which Monica works – a sampling from her Easter basket and a generous slice of my Grandma’s favorite coffee cake. We didn’t want her to miss out on our Easter Morning tradition just because she had to Read more…