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Good Friday, 2021 In mid-February I attended a retreat at Discovery House, an oasis of spiritual healing nestled at the intersection of Wharton State Forest and the blueberry farms that, long ago, helped earn New Jersey its “Garden State” nickname. The group of faithful Catholic men, in whom I humbly claim membership, is known as”Sons of the Father” (SOTF). We deepen the spiritual roots of our faith in this training ground in the hope that

The Nuns of Compiegne “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” (Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859))

City of Man or City of God? On August 24 in the year of our Lord 410, a cataclysmic event occurred that many thought could never happen: the sack of Rome! (Britannica.org) To try and put this historic happening into perspective, think of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 with the imagined “sack” of New York City and Washington, D.C.–combined–and you will have an idea of the massive scale of Rome falling. (Thomas Cole 1833) This was

If right now you don’t feel or believe that you are heroic or that you have heroism within you, then I hope that by the end of this series of blog posts you will have the conviction that you are heroic or that you have heroism within you. THE HERO’S JOURNEY Our novels, movies and real life stories describe the complexities that all humans experience, especially suffering for the sake of another, and the transformation

“Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (John 12:24) I wrote my last blog post in December, and the title, I’m embarrassed to say, is “Back on the job.” I should have added an *, and noted at the bottom: “At least until the end of the year” (haha). While my business