This morning I checked the inbox of one of my email accounts to find an email from a friend sharing with me an article that George Weigel wrote titled, WYD 1993: The Turning […]
World Youth Day 1993: 25 Years Later
Remembering My World Youth Day Experiences
As I have been seeing all the posts from my friends on social media as well as some of the videos posted by priests and figures such as Bishop Robert Barron, about […]
“Lord I Need You”
Over the past couple of days, I have been watching the video below of Matt Maher sing the song, Lord I Need You, at World Youth Day from a couple of weeks […]
“Mondays with Mary” – Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil)
I would imagine that many Catholics outside of Brazil, like myself, had never heard of Our Lady of Aparecida before the celebrations this week at World Youth Day in Rio de Janerio. […]
World Youth Day Reflections from the JP2 Generation
As I watched the Evening Vigil tonight on EWTN with Pope Francis on the Copacabana Beach in Brazil, it brought back fond memories of my own experiences at the two World Youth […]
Saint James the Greater – The Pilgrim Apostle
Today is the Feast Day of St. James the Greater. If you were to rank the original Twelve Apostles, St. James the Greater (not to be confused with St. James the Lesser) […]
Reflections on Blessed John Paul II from the JP 2 Generation
I wrote this initially on October 22, 2011 on the first official feast day of Blessed John Paul II. It was on another blog that I was writing for at the time. […]
Congratulations Cardinal Timothy Dolan
As I sit here watching the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Creation of New Cardinals (DVR recording), I have to admit that I am jealous of those people sitting in St. Peter’s […]
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