Category Archives: RC Live

How do we evangelize? What does evangelization mean? How do charity and evangelization relate? These types of questions Fr John Bartunek tried to enter in his latest book of meditations. As I read through them, I had a mixed reaction: … Continue reading →

I’m grateful to be in Rome this week.  It isn’t that I like being away from home (and especially away from my wife), but if I have to go on a business trip, this is the ideal week. In fact, … Continue reading →

When Christ reaches into your life and your heart, it’s easy to understand the pull to follow him radically the way the first Christians did.  Living the gospel in the first years of the Church meant being counter-cultural, revolutionary. Ancient … Continue reading →

I learn so much from the saints. One of the graces I most appreciate of Rome is being able to visit so many of the tombs of these holy men and women who have gone before me and taught me … Continue reading →

The 45 DAY CHALLENGE 4 VOCATIONS consists in making a commitment, a pledge to do one vocation-related action daily for 45 consecutive days. Looking at our vocation crunch, I asked myself, “What am I doing concretely to foster vocations?” The … Continue reading →

Cover me, Lord, with your loving kindness. Save me, as you have promised. Then I will answer those who taunt me, for I put my hope in what you have said. –Psalm 119: 41-41 So many of our problems do … Continue reading →

Dear Grandpa Diff, Remember the Kennedy-Nixon debate?  It was the first on television and, naturally, the first I watched.  You were pretty old then; I believe it was the first and last televised debate you witnessed before going to you … Continue reading →

God listens especially to the attitude with which we pray. To God it doesn’t matter who we are in the image of the world, but the fact that we are His son or daughter makes all the difference. He wants … Continue reading →

Last Saturday I was accompanying a group of high school boys and girls for a monthly service project. This first one of the year was visiting a local nursing home. On the back of their missions t-shirt was the quote … Continue reading →

          A silent, beaming testament Of something just behind, Beauty blankets earth and sky That something more may find.