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We Can Be Filled With Hope, Even in Dark Times
As I write this, my spiritual mother and father are anxiously waiting with their son and daughter to see whether or not their granddaughter will have permanent brain damage after she went into cardiac arrest after she was born. Another one of my closest friends suddenly lost a cousin who was... Read more -
The Beads & Repetition of the Rosary
We should begin with what is most obvious in the Rosary. An aid is used in this prayer: a string or a chain of beads. Some of these beads are larger or are marked apart from the others by a greater distance. Ten smaller beads follow a larger one and form a decade. The whole chain has five... Read more -
Our Lady of Guadalupe statue lost in hurricane, recovered 10 years later by another
When Hurricane Alex roared through the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon in 2010, the wind tore a metal sculpture of Our Lady of Guadalupe from its base in the city of Monterrey, and flung the statue into the Santa Catarina River. An unsuccessful attempt was made to retrieve the image but it... Read more -
This October, Take Up Your Rosary and Prepare for Battle
When you hold a rosary in your hands, you enlist yourself in the Church Militant as a warrior for the Truth. You enter the ultimate battlefield — the only one that has eternal consequences. When you hold rosary beads near your heart in prayer, you make the beauty of the Heavenly Father... Read more -
Guardian Angels and Other Protectors, as Seen in a Commercial
Most of us struggle with the fact that God allows bad things to happen. Why does he not intervene more often to protect us from attacks of various sorts and from events that cause sadness, setbacks, or suffering? While the answer is mysterious, the clearest response is that God allows... Read more -
Four Things Your Guardian Angel Does For You
From an early age, my devout parents taught me that I had an angel at my side to protect and guide me. This comforted them, especially my anxious mom whose imagination envisioned a lot of trouble I could get up to. To be fair to her and my guardian angel, their concerns were mostly... Read more -
Staying Close to the Lord in a Time of Crisis
The ancient Jews had in their possession the Ark of the Covenant. It was a box of acacia wood, three cubits by two cubits (a cubit was the distance from a man’s elbow to the tip of his middle finger, or about 18 inches). In the Ark were the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, the staff of... Read more -
Metro Detroit priest calls for national day of prayer and fasting to unite country
Depending on the experts you listen to, the articles you read or the cable channel you watch for your national news, America appears divided. The protesting, the coronavirus, the election – take your pick; it's pretty ugly. However, a Catholic priest is reaching back to something President... Read more -
Mother Teresa’s simple (really simple!) trick for becoming closer to Jesus
Coffee in hand, I started off the other morning zombie style — scrolling Facebook and ignoring the many things I had to do, including leading my kids in our customary prayer time. So when a video popped up on the screen titled “Mother Teresa taught me this simple trick to become closer... Read more -
Archbishop Cordileone: Catholics at the Back of the Line
Archbishop Cordileone delivered the following homily at St. Mary's Cathedral Plaza in San Francisco on September 20, 2020. Whenever I hear today’s Gospel reading, I recall the years that I served as pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Calexico. In the desert heat, I would jog early... Read more