Monthly Archives: October 2012

I thank God every day I can send my students to a Catholic school.  Their school does a beautiful job of complimenting our parental teachings on what it means to love one’s neighbor as Jesus loves us.  I much prefer … Continue reading →

If you understood that title, you have probably stumbled onto the wrong blog. I don’t understand it either. My cousin just published an article with that title in ChemComm of the Royal Society of Chemistry as the first part of … Continue reading →

Fire! One day during spiritual exercises, we came out of our talk to the smell of burning wood. I wondered what bonfire the Italian candidates were having to make lunch. Then, I noticed burnt leaves on the sidewalk. This wasn’t … Continue reading →

The water calmly glitters blue moonbeams, The reddish moon approaching water seems To be for me alone this lonely night. ’Side tropical island with snowcap bright – Low lying clouds embrace the cleft-pocked peak. This life has nothing more for … Continue reading →

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” CS Lewis During my seminary years, both my brother and dad died within a 3 year … Continue reading →

The week between exams and vacation is always hectic in the library since we need to receive all the text books and pass out all the summer reading at once. Last year I think I described it well in another … Continue reading →

“The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds … Continue reading →

Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way He asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of … Continue reading →

Asleep awake the bell still roars, To play to eat my soul it bores. The sun through pallid branches shines, The train down in the valley whines  But life must have more than just these, Like dogs I stand and … Continue reading →

“How great the dignity of the soul since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it.” St. Jerome We all have a guardian angel who protects and guides us each and every day. Personally, I can … Continue reading →