The Monday After | on Purgatory and Waiting with Beatific Vision

We do not like waiting. Well, in any case, we're not good at it, which is obvious; in this age of invention we've all but eliminated the need to wait...

The Monday After | How Could He Ask Emily for Help?

The title of this episode is a reference to the film, The Crossing Guard, which I mention toward the end of the reflection in the hope of illustrating...

The Monday After | Pants Always Beats No Pants

Looking forward to the end of time with hope requires conceiving of our lives by the Holy Spirit in light of the promises God makes to us in the Scrip...

The Monday After | About a Girl at The Bar

If being together at Mass on Sundays is called "practicing the Faith" that means the world is our playing field, which means that Christ is training u...

The Monday After | All Beneath the Mulberry Tree

The root system of the mulberry tree is deep and complicated, not unlike the human heart, the ground beneath our feelings and emotions. It's a great t...

The Monday After | Where is His Victory?

Sometimes we walk too far behind Christ, weighed down by regret. And sometimes we walk too far ahead, worried about the future. But the person in fron...

The Monday After | Beyond the Truman Show: the Catholic Vision of Reality

So much of this world is man-made that it's a lot like The Truman Show. But Christ comes into our lives, like Sylvia into Truman's, emboldening us, by...

The Monday After | The Necessary Evil of Handing Over the Son

Treatments like chemotherapy, for example, are in some ways similar to Christ's death on the cross; they are necessary evils; one heals cancer, the ot...

The Monday After | Always First Death

Dealing with God will always mean dying to that part of us that resists seeing things from his perspective.

The Monday After | Paradox or Contradiction

This is the first episode of a new segment called, "The Monday After," offering a series of reflections following the Sunday Mass. 

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 20 | Humanity | Epilogue

This is the conclusion of a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recor...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 19 | Faith

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 18 | Humility

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 17 | The Kingdom of God

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 16 | Freedom

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 15 | The Fear of Death

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 14 | Retreats

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 13 | The Meaning of the Mass

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 12 | The Apostolate

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 11 | The Priesthood

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 10 | Work

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 9 | The Body

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 8 | In Transit

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 7 | Four Years of Purgatory

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 6 | The Interrogations

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 5 | Lubianka

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 4 | Arrest and Imprisonment

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 3 | Russia

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 2 | The Decision to Enter Russia

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

He Leadeth Me | Prologue and Chapter 1 | Albertyn

This is a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recorded for the Mens R...

Can a Modern Person Believe Without Reservation?

Catherine O'Donnell on Elizabeth Ann Seton

This is a talk on Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton given by Catherine O'Donnell, professor of History at Arizona State University.

The Heavens are Vested in Glory

This is a song we sing when on retreat together with the ecclesial movement, Communion and Liberation.