Live Jesus! Pennsylvania is on Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM at St. Thomas the Apostle in Glen Mills, PA. Join us for a morning of reflection. This year’s theme is “Bloom where you are planted.” Learn more…
Live Jesus! Virginia is on March 9 from 8:00 AM - 12:45 PM at Bishop Ireton Catholic High School, Alexandria, VA. Join us for a morning of reflection. This year’s theme is “Bloom where you are planted.” Learn more…
Live Jesus! Delaware is on December 9th from 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM at St. Margaret of Scotland Parish Newark, DE. Join us for a morning of reflection. This year’s theme is “Bloom where you are planted.” Learn more…
The Toledo-Detroit Province has elected Father Joe Newman, OSFS, to minister as Provincial Superior. Fr. Joe was ordained an Oblate priest in 2013 and has been ministering at St. Francis de Sales School in Toledo...Read More
Today is a true February day: sunny but cloudy, cool but blustery, bright but the darkness still comes early each evening. I love the winter but not the stronger winds or the shorter days. The gales and darkness can seem to win. Nature is a very good teacher for us. How often in life do the dark moments seem to overwhelm the light or the blowing winds outrun our desire for peace and calm?
In the closing pages of his book entitled American Church, author Russell Shaw describes “New Evangelization”:
“The key to new evangelization as a high priority of a new American Catholic subculture isn’t institutions and programs. Where to begin? It must start with the idea of vocation: with preaching and teaching and writing and broadcasting in every available forum the message that God intends each of us to play a unique, unrepeatable role in his providential, redemptive plan. Every life is a vocation. Today, it is not merely desirable but imperative that we acknowledge the reality of unique, personal vocation as preached and taught by such figures as Saint Francis de Sales…”
As a casual NFL fan, whose attention is drawn to the gridiron only once the playoffs begin, the defensive stalemate that characterized the most recent Super Bowl was thankfully punctuated for me by the regular interlude of this year’s lineup of Super Bowl commercials. While feeling slightly guilty for being so intrigued by such unabashed invitations to American consumerism, I’m always curious to see what the best in current televised marketing can come up with.
January 24 is the feast day of St. Francis de Sales. In honor of his feast day, I would like to reflect upon a few lesser-known aspects of his life.
If we were to ask Francis de Sales for the briefest and best summary of his spirit and doctrine, he would probably answer us with what he wrote at the end of his spiritual masterpiece, Treatise on the Love of God: "Live Jesus whom I love!" (Bk 12, ch. 13)
During the four weeks before Christmas, many churches put on Christmas pageants in which the story of the birth of Jesus is acted out, usually by young children. One of my favorite Christmas stories is about one of those Christmas pageants. It took place in a small Church in a little village somewhere in New England. You may have heard it too..........…
We all have probably heard this spoken to us at some point during our lives as children, listening attentively as our parents, grandparents, or other loved ones recited fairy tales to us at our bedside, lulling us to sleep with tales of enchanted kingdoms, charming princes and dastardly villains, wizards and magical spells..............…
The Church concludes its liturgical year with the feast of Christ the King. The kind of “king” that Jesus was reveals the kind of disciple that we are called to be. Jesus came to give new life, to forgive sins, to reveal the depth of God’s love for us, and to uplift our spirits and sights to God.................…
