Padre Roque (Homily, Funeral Mass of Fr. Roque Ferriols, SJ)
A man is greater than his life condensed in a list of events and happenings. Indeed, a man is greater than everything he does or creates. So how better... Read more
Healthy and Well
As we move towards Holy Week, how would you answer this question, sisters and brothers: besides atonement for the sins of the world, what else do you think our... Read more
Sundowning
Have you ever seen your aging parents sundown, sisters and brothers? How about you, have you ever sundowned? What were you yearning for, or whom? What did you fear... Read more
Loved to Love (5th Sunday of Easter)
To love authentically and with greater integrity, we must be rooted into the only source of that life-giving and life-bearing love: Jesus himself. He who is God is love. Read more
Incarnate Forever
The Incarnation, I keep telling my students, is not just a one-time-big-time day we peg on December 25. No; incarnating is God’s being and behavior. Incarnating is the total... Read more
Off Our Knees (1st Sunday of Advent)
In the following weeks of our preparation for the Feast of the Incarnation, let’s keep remembering, sisters and brothers, that the Incarnation is not just all about the sinners... Read more
Two Impossible Commandments
Today our Lord does hand us what is virtually an impossible commandment, but he also furnishes us with the means to achieve that end. As long as we keep... Read more