5 March 2024
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Jesus calls us to forgive one another from our hearts. This makes sense. Forgiveness cannot be authentic if ...
4 March 2024
Monday of the Third Week of Lent How likely are we to believe that the good, the holy is near us? Verses before the beginning of today’s ...
3 March 2024
Third Sunday of Lent Memory is an amazing, fragile and mysterious gift. Although it is generally trustworthy, it sometimes fails us. Perhaps ...
2 March 2024
Saturday of the Second Week of Lent It was on this date in 1606 that St. Nicholas Owen died after a week of ghastly torture. His crime: decades ...
1 March 2024
Friday of the Second Week of Lent At 17 years of age, Joseph was still making costly blunders. Later he would save his family and become a true ...
29 February 2024
Thursday of the Second Week of Lent In his third chapter, the prophet Jeremiah writes “cursed is the man who trusts in human beings,” and ...
28 February 2024
Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent “There is no such thing as divine wrath, and if there is, it’s not worth our attention or concern.” God ...
27 February 2024
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent The book of Isaiah starts with a string of invectives directed at its own readership. Maybe it was a strange ...
26 February 2024
Monday of the Second Week in Lent You can read a prayer of contrition in the ninth chapter of the book of Daniel. This prayer is a confession ...
25 February 2024
Second Sunday of Lent A very fine diocesan priest became my spiritual director twenty years ago, just as I was beginning to discern my ...