Thursday, June 30, 2011

Fun Times With the Little People

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The "Daddy and the Kids" show is nearly three weeks old! Next week is our last week and then Mommy will be home for good. It wil...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The Meaning of the Pallium

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On the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the Pope bestows the pallium  on new Archbishops. The pallium is a portion of the Archbishop's garm...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The New Cardinal Archbishop of Milan

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The Holy Spirit is at work in the Church. Cardinal Angelo Scola has just been named Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan. After many years, he...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Far From Home, Near to My Heart

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Well, the weekend is over and Eileen is back in Baltimore. We had a nice (inexpensive) dinner and a walk down Main Street in the twilight to...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Verbal Warfare

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Sometimes I am frightened by words. We have more words today than ever before in history, and more ways of saying them. So many of our words...
Friday, June 24, 2011

The Heart of Christ Emerges

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"In this Love, the Heart of Christ emerges... and thus changes things, people and the world." The words below from Benedict XVI in...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Me and the Kids, After Two Weeks!

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Mommy is coming home for the weekend again tomorrow. She'll bring a box of homework with her, but I hope that she and I will be able to ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Our Wedding Anniversary

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Fifteen years ago today, Eileen and I got married. I won't say that it "feels like yesterday" because, well, it doesn't . ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

"Daddy, Why Don't Some People Love God?"

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Before praying the Rosary tonight, Josefina looked at me and asked me in a very earnest way, "Daddy, why don't some people love God...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Mental Illness Happens to "Normal People"

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Tonight I am reflecting upon mental illness, but this time not my own. It is so hard to get people to see that mental illness is real, by ...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Priests are Human Beings

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I have been thinking today about those particular men in the Church we call priests . As a "lay theologian" since the days when it...
Friday, June 17, 2011

How Can a Rich Man Enter the Kingdom of God?

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How hard it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. I am a rich man. Our family is rich in material possessions and conveniences, i...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Day Three

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Day three is over. It's time to go to bed. Josefina kept me busy doing puzzles all evening. She invents her own games out of puzzles, ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Family Life, Ecclesial Life

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My own experience of family life is illuminated by the preaching of Benedict XVI, in these words taken from his recent pastoral visit to Cr...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Me and the Kids!

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My wife left me today. If you read the previous blog post, of course, you know that she will be back Friday evening. Then she will leave ag...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Mommy's Heading Off to School! What Will We Do??

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That is my beautiful wife. She is so amazing. She is definitely the heart of this family. Even more, she is the principle of organization ar...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Mother of God and the Holy Spirit.

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Veni Sancte Spiritus, Veni Per Mariam . So I pray, many times during the course of the day. It is an invocation worth pondering on the eve...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Openness To Conversion

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For tonight, just some words from Fr. Julian Carron, International "Responsabile" of the movement of Comunione e Liberazione , fro...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Divine Mercy and the Gift of the Holy Spirit

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"For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have Mercy on us and on the whole world." I pray this prayer every day, when I say the c...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

A New Life in the Holy Spirit

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During this week, Christians remem- ber the original "novena"--the nine days when the disciples of Jesus gathered in the upper roo...