Category: Prayer & Reflection
Student Led Campus Ministry – A proposal for both Catholic and Public Schools
Last week, I touched in my homily on my experience when I was a public high school student and the impact my peers had on me in openly discussing and living faith in that atmosphere. This experience has shaped the way I have viewed youth ministry and the goal of…
Christ the King has Conquered an Evil World Before
Today we celebrate the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. We celebrate the fact that Jesus Christ is King over everything! I want to begin with a little bit of history about this Feast Day. On December 11, 1925, Pope Pius XI declared this feast day….
Anxiety Over Forgiven Sin is not God’s Will.
A middle aged woman is guilt ridden by past sin. Anxiety plays the reel over and over in her mind: What she did, What she should have done… In her mind she continues to tell herself: “This is the cross the Lord has asked me to carry because of the…
Praying with Sunday Mass Readings during the Week
This weekend at Mass — when you sat in your pew, opened the missalette and read along with the Mass Readings, was this the first time you had encountered the readings of Mass for this weekend? Catholics are often accused of not knowing scripture; yet here is the fact, out…
Reclaiming Athletics: The Use of Sports to Develop Virtue in Young Men and Women
How many hours a week do our children spend practicing athletics? Is it higher than 20 hours a week? The official policies of the NCAA regulate that college athletes can not be required to practice more than 20 hours a week. (Source). I’d be interested to see the number of hours…