Archive for Saints
The Power of Christ’s Blood (St. John Chrysostom)
You may not know that one of the promises clergy & religious make upon entering their vocation is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (AKA Divine office.) This is a routine of prayers that they pray at various times throughout the day to make sure that they don’t lose sight of their relationship with [...]
Less of Me
He must increase; I must decrease. (John 3:30.) I’ve admired John the Baptist for a long time. Any guy who lives on locusts and honey, and who wears fur skin while living in the desert is a pretty tough guy, is the kind of guy you’d want on your team for just about anything. What I’ve [...]
Saints in Progress
Time and time again, when Pope John Paul the Great saw a group of young people, he would invite them to be ‘Saints for the new millenium.’ Mother Teresa said that we are all called to be saints. And Pope Benedict XVI has repeated this invitation – because in every age, God raises up Saints [...]
A Youth Ministry Success Story
For the past eleven (11!) years, I have had the priviledge of working in youth ministry. Some of you may be reading this blog from my youth ministry site, http://www.htyouth.ws, or our facebook group, http://www.facebook.com/htyouth, which are the official home pages of youth ministry at my parish. What I want to share with you today is [...]
Prisoner #16670
If you’ve ever studied World War II you’ve probably heard of Auschwitz. Aushwitz was initially a concentration camp that later became the largest of the Nazi death camps, where almost 1.1 million people died. One of these 1.1 million was a Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe (prisoner #16670.) Fr. Kolbe had done missionary work in Japan and India [...]
St. John Chrysostom’s Easter Sermon
(A friend passed this on to me yesterday – and I wanted to share it with you on the day we frame Jesus’ sacrifice with the greatest truth of our faith: the Resurrection. His love for us is even stronger than death, leaving us always with hope for a greater future.) Let all the devout, [...]