Pierogi Is Better in Poland
We had Mass today at the convert a young St. Faustina entered. We venerated her relics. Prayed a decade of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I’ll write more on that later. But for now, I just thought I’d...
View ArticleLord, Have Mercy: Take One
It feels like we have been here three days already. But we landed in Warsaw earlier today. That’s pilgrimage. You pack so much into it all that the whole thing is a blur. A good blur. A gloriously...
View ArticleWhen A Saint Talks To You
In Warsaw, you will find this little church. It is part of the Franciscan Monastery of Niepokalanów founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe. His relics are there. Wait. How could they have relics of a man...
View ArticleDandelions and Death Camps
I saw Auschwitz today. I saw a dandelion growing today at Auschwitz. And I thought about the disdain we have for a dandelion. We cut them down. We poison them. We laugh at children who think they are...
View ArticleLeaving on a Jet Plane? Where would you go? And why?
Christopher West has been around as long as I can remember. I first encountered his writing when I was in RCIA class in 2004-2005. Our instructor rounded out the material on sex & marriage by...
View ArticleCatholic Teen. Will Travel.
Some people sit in airports and watch people. Some do it at sports events or family reunions or the mall. I people watch on pilgrimage. My favorite group of people to watch are the young people....
View ArticleGod Is A Teaser
Sometimes, it seems like God is a bit of a teaser. A little over a year ago, I sat with a new friend. She had the best job in the world. I told her so. “If I could dream up the perfect job description,...
View ArticleWhy I Love Israel
Dad was a Protestant preacher. I loved and admired him. I remember watching his face as he watched Rex Humbard televised shows from the Holy Land. Dad ached to go, to walk where Jesus Christ had...
View ArticleCurly Hair–avoiding the near occasion of sin.
My grandmother loved my curls. I got them from her. Dad had them, too. But being a man, he kept his hair short. Mom came from straight-hair DNA. She didn’t know what to do with me. After I left the...
View ArticleTiny Living (also known as “live simply that all may simply live”)
Few things capture my imagination as much as this new trend of tiny living. Super cool. Fascinating. I want to have ten of them lined up on our property (we have four acres). I think it would be a...
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