One of the standard activities of a visit to our place in Yonkers is a trip to the friars' cemetery to remember and pray for our dead. ...

Among many noteworthy happenings back when I was parochial vicar in Yonkers, one day in 2008 an Italian friar showed up and announced that h...

You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matthew 5:48) "What, then, is the perfection the Lord asks of u...

Once in a while in my wish to live a spiritual life I have wandered into a dead end or a blind alley. Usually it involves the wrong use of r...

On my way home from an appointment this morning I stopped by the Lateran Basilica to visit the Italian-English-Irish confessor, a gentle old...

I've taken to going to the Lateran basilica for confession. They're OFMs there and sometimes it's just easier to confess to a Fr...

Yesterday I finally got to confession. It had been too long. In fact, it had been since the day of my pilgrimage to the bleak Via Ostiense 1...

Last week was the week of road trips. Last weekend I was in Manchester and Camp Fatima, New Hampshire. It was Beacon, New York for Tuesday a...

"As spiritual as we might become, we are still also animals. And the animal man has needs--food, water, shelter, and rest for sure--but...

Today I did myself a favor and went to one of the days of recollection for priests offered here in Boston. The first part was a holy hour. T...

'So you find yourself in the position of someone who is partly spiritual mature, but not fully. And both can be used to your advantage. ...

A good reminder against distractions in prayer: Remember that we can sometimes get to the point where we are so accustomed to conversation w...

Being a priest shifts one's relationship to the sacraments in ways that go way beyond simply coming into a new role or function in the s...

A word from my confessor: "The life of a religious or a priest is only possible as a life of prayer. What does it mean to live a life o...

A new town means testing out new confessors. I think it hit a home run on the first try: Two things, Brother. First, remember that our anger...

Short and sweet today: "Avail yourself of the grace of God as you strive for a higher degree of Christian perfection." What else i...

"When you're in love with someone, you look forward to opportunities to give a gift or do something extra for that person. Birthday...

"Nobody likes to be confronted about the injustice and meanness with which we treat each other, but we must not lash out or react ungra...

It's my eighteenth Lent eve. I love this day, full of hopes and promise for new beginnings and a fresh start of things. I think it's...

"You are little hard on yourself. Just think about it." Sometimes it's the simplest messages, as well as the ones that descend...