Category: Rome is Home

  • Real Love

    On the way home from work tonight, all I could think about was God’s goodness in my life, and how He blesses me so incredibly much – more than I could ever ask for – even in my unworthiness. That’s real love, my dear friends. “Sinfulness” has been on my mind all week (along with…

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  • Waking Up to Ourselves

    “The deepest meaning of Advent cannot be understood by anyone who has not first experienced being terrified unto death about himself and his human prospects and likewise what is revealed within himself about the situation and the constitution of mankind in general. The entire message about God’s coming, about the Day of Salvation, about redemption…

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  • Solemnity of All Saints

    To become saints means to fulfill completely what we already are, raised to the dignity of God’s adopted children in Christ Jesus… The saints bring to light in creative fashion quite new human potentialities.. The saints are themselves the living spaces into which one can turn… There is no isolation in heaven. It is the…

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  • The House You’re Building

    Three weeks ago, I gave a talk and led a discussion on our Blessed Mother during CCM’s weekly formation/fellowship event, Soul Food. Following that discussion, I had a wonderful conversation with a student who is currently in the process of going through RCIA. Since the start of the semester, we would have our weekly and…

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  • Come to love Love

    Come to love Love

    A few days before I left Florence, a few of us from the SSTM took a mini pilgrimage to the Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi. It’s situated on the hills of Careggi, overlooking Florence and the rest of the beautiful Tuscan hills that surround it. I didn’t know much about St. Mary Magdalene…

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