Never Give Up

Happy feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle,  "the First-Called,” who is greatly venerated in the East, especially by the see of Constantin...

Dorothy Day's long labors came to an end on November 29, 1980. After her conversion, she spent half a century bearing witness to Christ ...

For [Christ] assumed at his first coming  the lowliness of human flesh, and so fulfilled the design you [Father] formed long ago, and opened...

🇺🇦Pray for the people of Ukraine.🇺🇦  The last Saturday in November is Holodomor Remembrance Day —marking the beginning of the Winter of ...

Even though it now gets dark so early, and some days have been cold, there is a different kind of beauty to gaze upon, and for me to present...

Happy Thanksgiving 2022 from the Janaros!🙂

We humans have been given freedom so that we might freely adhere to God— the Mysterious Other we long for, the One who is our origin, suste...

On this last Sunday of the liturgical year, we gaze once again on the face of our King. Crucified Love measures the depths of all things, an...

This week’s Collect prayer: “…it is full and lasting happiness to serve with constancy the author of all that is good  …”  Doesn’t this sou...

Earlier this week, I stepped out of my “home office” to get some coffee from the kitchen, and I came upon the Artiste at work. Oh my, excus...

Today is the Feast of Saint Gertrude “the Great” (1256-1302) of the 13th century Benedictine monastery of Helfta in Southeastern Germany, wh...

…in November, anyway. Wet, cold, dark, rainy. Two days in a row. That’ll bring most of the remaining leaves down, but it will get the creek ...

One hundred and four years ago, the  Armistice  began. Conscripted soldiers in Europe (who were still alive) were no longer under orders to ...

It has been six years and five months since the young singer-songwriter Christina Grimmie was killed at an open meet-and-greet after a conce...

The weather has us confused lately in the Shenandoah Valley. We have been having temperatures in the 70s (F) during the day. We had to turn ...

It’s almost scary how much easier it is becoming to make cartoons. Apps are being developed and improved constantly in the line of recording...

November is the month in which we pray for "the faithful departed." This has become a very particular and deeply felt task for me ...

“When the Lord comes in glory, and all his angels with him, death will be no more and all things will be subject to him. But at the present ...

Here is a bit of an “existential reflection” on how the past four years have been so different from what I expected them to be. It was a goo...

Today’s Gospel reading about Zacchaeus the tax collector reminded me of an article I wrote on his conversion in my column in Magnificat , pu...