Never Give Up

Scenes of April Spring:

Pope Francis was called home to the Father’s House this morning at 7:35 AM Rome time. After a beautiful Easter Sunday, in which he was able ...

Alleluia! Christ has triumphed over death. “The light of the Resurrection illumines our path one step at a time; quietly, it breaks through ...

“We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You, because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world.” Image: William Congdon, “Crucifix” seri...

Here is the Collect Prayer for Holy Thursday.  This prayer encourages us to "draw...the fullness of charity [agape] and of life" f...

Although he was unable to say the Mass in public, the still-convalescing Pope Francis prepared and published the text of the homily for the ...

It’s not Easter 2025 yet, but it is the 10th of April, and so I share these Easter greetings Christina Grimmie posted long ago as I remember...

El Salvador. The Savior . I cannot set this aside and ignore it. Not on any day. Especially not in these days. Here are the shaved heads an...

Saturday's COLLECT is a powerful prayer that reminds us of our total dependence on the mercy of God, and also the power of His grace to ...

My father passed away six years ago on this day, April 3, 2019. ( Requiem Aeternum ...) Here he is in this picture sometime around the year ...

April begins with anniversaries of people who have passed from this life into the infinite embrace of the Mystery of God - people who played...

Woof! It’s exhausting! Maybe writing about it will help. In the Spring of the year 2025, JJ finds himself in a rare and peculiar situation: ...

Pope Francis, March 26, 2025.  I’m so grateful that he is still with us , that his ministry will continue among us for as long as God wills....

Happy Solemnity of the Annunciation! (Coptic Ethiopian icon.)  “ Behold the handmaid of the Lord. / Be it done unto me according to your wor...

Today is the feast of Saint Oscar Romero, Archbishop and Martyr. He was assassinated by El Salvador’s “Death Squads” while saying Mass at th...

Pope Francis has been released from the hospital. He has sufficiently recovered from a difficult battle with double pneumonia. He made a bri...

Happy First Day of Spring!  Well, for the Northern Hemisphere, at least. For my Aussie and Argentine friends (and all others in temperate zo...

Saint Joseph is a unique companion in the Great Friendship that is the Church. We have images and statues of Saint Joseph (as we do of Jesu...

I know that I don’t “make myself.”  I don’t cause my own existence. I am radically given-to-myself and sustained-in-myself at every moment...

Today would have been Christina Grimmie’s 31st Birthday.💚🎶  We remember with gratitude this astonishing young woman, her joy, her great hu...

We must worship God and trust in Him, rather than selling our souls in order to "win" the struggle for political power.

I can't find the words for these days. So, instead, I work on pictures.

Prayer, Fasting, Justice, Mercy.  The mercy of God will enable us to be merciful to one another.

Once again I wish to reference this courageous and prophetic Archbishop, his Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek (Byz...

“O God, be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13).

I am reproducing below, for educational purposes, the text of a recent lecture given  at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC...