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The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
One of my favorite things to do at the seminary- though it isn’t something you may expect- was to give tours. Our tours were basically like everyone else’s, in that…
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The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
We’ve all likely heard, seen, or read the phrase “Based on a true story” or “Based on true events.” It isn’t necessarily all that common, but it is still fascinating…
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The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
As a priest, there is something very beautiful that I see in the Sacrament of Matrimony. There are a lot of great things- such as the tangible nature of the…
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The Baptism of the Lord
A couple of years ago, when I had the chance to visit the Holy Land with my brother seminarians, we saw many things that we expected- and they looked about…
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The Epiphany of the Lord
We’ve all probably been there: we’ve had that problem that we just can’t seem to figure out. A strange constellation of events that seem to have no correlation. Maybe we…
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The Holy Family
August 2012. That was the month and the year that my life changed in a tremendous way. There had been plenty of other changes before that time- graduating, starting jobs,…
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The Second Sunday of Advent
When it came to the sport of baseball, whenever I was playing it in my younger years, over time I found two profoundly different ways that you could play the…
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The First Sunday of Advent
To procrastinate, or to be proactive? That was often a question around the seminary. Many men in formation at the seminary would find themselves to be the procrastination crowd- they…