Spontaneous Prayer
I’ve said some foolish things in my life. One time I met a woman who said,…
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Parenting
A good young priest, Fr. Lucio Choi, once shared with me how he was discouraged,…
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Healing is Simpler Than Imagined
I know a man who’s got a lot of problems: He struggles with his closest…
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How do you spell faith? R-I-S-K
Many of you have said that you remember the story I told last year about…
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How We Treat the Poor Matters
I have a happy announcement to make, one that reminds us to do some biblical…
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Should There Be Separation of Church and State?
On December 1, 1955, a 42-year old black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give…
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The Value of One Person
Two years ago, I learned something funny about boys and girls. At the end of the…
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Fruitful Discipleship
One of the last times I went to Confession, I wanted to make a really…
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Made for Service
When I was in Taiwan living at the Holy See nunciature (Vatican embassy), Msgr. Russell…
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Making a Decision
In Rome I once met a newly married couple who were visiting from Vancouver. They…
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Laziness or Rest?
Who in your family does the most work? Husband or wife? You or your siblings? Who does…
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Being Rich Towards God
We’re now halfway through the Sabbath Summer, the season of resting in God and celebrating Him,…
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Praying Like Jesus
In my experience, here are the four most common stumbling blocks to prayer: 1) We…
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Why We Pray
You have five seconds to answer the following question, one that people sometimes ask us,…
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Healing While Resting
Let me explain more deeply why, as a parish family, we’ve just started a season…
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We Become What We Celebrate
For the next two months, we’re going to do something that we’ve never done at…
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Commitment Gives Freedom
I once found a hilarious video on YouTube, and then sent it to a guy…
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Eucharistic Culture
A few months ago, there were two tragic pieces of news: 1) Someone was selling…
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The Law of the Gift
Three questions: 1) Is there anyone in our family from whom we’re now distant because…
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Stories Strengthen Souls
For those of you with children, how would you survive if you lost your children…
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5 Types of Questions That Help Us Pay Attention to God
How many real friends do you have? Do you know? “Here is a simple litmus test of…
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Want to Help People You Love to Grow? Here Are 4 Ways
In our lives all of us have people whom we want to change, right? Parents, you…
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Sacrificial Love
A friend once was talking to me and started crying because he admitted that he…
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Dealing with Shame
Fr. Mike Schmitz tells a story he heard about a village in Africa. In the midst…
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A Joy That No One Can Steal
Happy Easter, brothers and sisters! And a special Happy Easter to all of our guests! God…
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Jesus Gave Everything
In the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Centre, Robert Small worked on the seventy-second…
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6 Questions to Have Devout Conversations
At our St. Anthony of Padua Leadership Summit on April 13, we talked about having…
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Judging is Wrong, But Sometimes it’s Right
Two stories: First, aboard the papal plane in 2013, Pope Francis said, in reference to…
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Is Being “Good” Sufficient to Go to Heaven?
“Dear Father Justin: I was in my Bible study group today when the discussion became…
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Being at Home with God
In 2010, after being in Rome for nine months, I was sent to Taiwan for…
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