Novena Reflection Text and Recording
I was honored by Msgr. Tom Sullivan to be invited to give a reflection for the September 30, 2019 Novena to St. Joseph. The passage I chose to base my…
Category: Faith
Novena to St. Joseph 2019
The 2019 Novena to St. Joseph will begin on Monday, September 9 and continue for nine consecutive Mondays through November. This year, the novena includes three lay women giving reflections…
Churches, Worship, and People in Crisis
Sometimes all people need is someone to listen to them. In our small, independent medical practice we have 30 minute appointments and often run behind because our patients need the…
St. Maximilian Kolbe and Euthanasia
During morning Mass on August 14th, the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, I listened to the priest recount the story of his death at Auschwitz. I knew the story…
Saint Edith Stein, Christmas, and Redemptive Suffering
This excerpt is from The Mystery of Christmas, a lecture she gave to a group of academics. This is even more powerful when one considers her eventual martyrdom in an…
