Never Give Up

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Fans of all ages... We are proud to announce that, at the age of six years, eleven months, a...

Ever since he was a little kid, John Paul has always been very competent and responsible at carrying out tasks that require care, attention...

Weird weather as the year grows old Writing has become even more laborious and exhausting than ever. Its more than just the formatting o...

Okay, lets say it one more time: "Pray, hope, and don't worry!" Everybody remembers this. We love the "don't wo...

Today is St. Matthew's feast day. I was struck by the remarks of Pope Francis, about how he would often visit the church of San Luigi...

Young John Janaro (aka "JJ") in the mountains, around 1990 There has been some further consideration of the recently redi...

Ancient media artifact discovered from "the nineties" The recent Janaro Archeological Expedition (also known as "Get Rea...

We trust God because we know He loves us. Everything is His gift, and expresses His personal love for each of us and for the relationshi...

Though He was in the form of God,  [Jesus] did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, He emptied Himself, ...

They were marked as The Team of Destiny . ...in April. The season began with the Washington Nationals on top of the w...

Josefina comes over to my big brown chair and just perches herself on the edge, which is her unspoken way of saying, "scoot over....

St. Ignatius working on his blog.  I've been doing some research on St. Ignatius of Loyola for an article I'm writing (part of ...

Would an introvert let anyone see this picture? There's been a fad bopping around the internet recently. Maybe its not so recent, bu...

Early morning walks, bright, sunny and still cool I don't care what anyone says: its still summer! I don't care that our older...

God chose a moment of history--a particular place and time--to enter into an inconceivable solidarity with the human race by becoming one...

We're in Mary's "week" -- the octave of days between the great feast of the Assumption and the feast of August 22, the f...

Father in heaven, through the merciful heart of Your Son Jesus, crucified and risen from the dead for our salvation, and by the grace of ...

Giving the kids important lessons about life Its hard to be a father. Or, rather, its hard to be a good  father. I've told lots of...

Jesus has suffered for all of us, and suffers in all of us. He is the reason why redemption and glory are destined to rise up out of our...

With Christ I am nailed to the cross. It is now no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh, ...