Go, sweep your house — St. Francis de Paola
Go, sweep your house, that is, your conscience, and be a good Christian. The recollection of injury is…a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. Be lovers of peace...
Author: Mauro Bruno
12 Mystical Places We Visit at Mass: #3 – Cana
At church, we have come to Bethlehem. We have sat with Jesus, listening and learning in the the synagogue at Nazareth. When we look up, we are at a wedding. The...
12 Mystical Places We Visit at Mass: #2 – Nazareth
Entering the church through its doors is like entering Bethlehem. But when we listen to the readings from the Hebrew scriptures, we are in Nazareth during the c...
The cross stands firm – St. Bruno
1- While the world changes, the cross stands firm. 2-Only those who have experienced the solitude and the silence of the wilderness can know the benefit and div...
Annunciation
In the cool darkness, a muffled affirmation and light came again, a far off star penetrating the moonless cloudy night; piercing the vaporous veil, from sky to ...
12 Mystical Places We Visit at Mass: #1 – Bethlehem
There are 12 mystical places we visit at mass. How is this possible? A Catholic Church is a holy place. It is a living and breathing house built by humans and s...
Back and Forth Across the Lawn
The man pushed his gas-powered, unassisted drive lawn mower back and forth across the lawn. He muscled the machine forward and back, left and right, in a search...
St. Joseph Shared in the Passion of Jesus
On this Feast of St. Joseph, I’m reminded and awed by the sacrifice and faith of this man of whom we know so little. Yet he stands as the protector of the Churc...
On The Way to Universitatis: Da Bó (Two Cows)
I was walking to Universitatis in a land of peacock stones of the sea and vast luminous green fields, dotted with thatch-roofed cottages. I rounded a hillock an...
The Church will always remain – St. John Bosco
All past persecutors of the Church are now no more, but the Church still lives on. The same fate awaits modern persecutors; they, too, will pass on, but the Chu...
