I am getting ready for our community’s annual 5-day silent retreat, but I wanted to recommend to all of you two of the latest homilies that we have posted on our website. One is my homily from this past Sunday, and relates to keeping our focus firmly on Christ; the other is by Fr. George […]
Feast of St. Maria Goretti
Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Today, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young girl who gave her life for Christ when she was only twelve years old. Was she ordered to deny Christ? No. Was she commanded by persecutors to spit upon a cross (as often happened in other times, […]
Power of the Blood of Jesus over the Devil
I am begging you, since it is so delightful, never let any trouble or temptation the devil might give you make you look back; never let your soul give in to sadness or discouragement, for the devil would like nothing better. He likes to give us lots of annoyances and different sorts of struggles, and […]
Let us purify our hearts
Let us purify ourselves, brethren, through the martyrs; or rather, through him through whom they too were purified in blood and truth. Let us free ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit. Let us wash; let us become clean; you, let us present our very bodies and souls as a living sacrifice, holy and […]
Rachel’s Vineyard Aftercare retreat in May
I will be giving a Rachel’s Vineyard Aftercare retreat in the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin from May 18-20 — if you are interested, you can contact me for more information. I will be giving my retreat series called “Victory over the Culture of Death,” which was developed to introduce the Confraternity and the call to […]
The Gift of Fear of Offending God
Fear is a fundamental gift because it roots us in the truth about God and divine things. These things are terrible: the ways of God, the justice of God, the mercy of God, the silence of God, the holiness of God. They are beyond us, above us. A child has no fear amid terrifying and […]
Create a Clean Heart in Me, O God!
With voices in harmony and hearts in concord we have begged the Lord for our own hearts by saying, Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew an upright spirit in me (Psalm 51:12)… It’s a psalm of someone repenting, someone wishing to retrieve the hope he had lost, lying where he had […]
A great conference in California
I had a wonderful opportunity to speak at a Divine Mercy Conference in San Ramon, California last weekend, and had the great blessing of “tag-teaming” with one of our Confraternity members! Theresa Bonapartis, the founder of Lumina in New York (which runs the “Entering Canaan” retreats for post-abortion healing) was one of my fellow speakers. […]
Forgiveness & the Cross
“Forgiveness does not mean that God says to me: Your evil deed shall be undone. It was done and remains done. Nor does it mean that he says: It was not so bad. It was bad – I know it and God knows it. And again it does not mean that God is willing to […]
Joy and Happiness in Jesus
“O the happiness of the heavenly alleluia, sung in security, in fear of no adversity! We shall have no enemies in heaven, we shall never lose a friend. God’s praises are sung both there and here, but here they are sung in anxiety, there, in security; here they are sung by those destined to die, […]
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