We have spent this week naming something.We have named the center.We have named how easily it shifts.We have named Godzilla.We have named the systems that provoke him.Now comes the harder part.Practice.It is one thing to recognize that our interior lives are being destabilized.It is another thing entirely to retrain them.LentRead more

OpeningWe often imagine that once responsibility is owned, once truth is spoken, once the blame game stops, everything should return to normal.But Genesis does not give us that ending.Adam speaks.Eve speaks.God responds.Consequences are named.The ground will resist.Childbirth will hurt.Mortality will define their horizon.The garden will no longer be home.There isRead more

OpeningWhen I was a little kid, my brothers and I, three boys close in age, were rather… shall we say…. prone to roughhousing. We built full games out of Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Transformers, Voltron. The Den was often less a room and more a battlefield.And inevitably, something would crash.Something wouldRead more

Dear Friends,Whether you agreed with it or opposed it, last night’s State of the Union did something to you.It raised the emotional temperature.It pulled at your instincts.It stirred anger, triumph, fear, or defensiveness.And that reaction is exactly why this series matters.We are living in an age where entire systems areRead more

There is a moment in Genesis that we often rush past.God asks the question.Adam answers.And the story continues.“I was afraid… so I hid.”Fear explains the hiding. It does not justify remaining there.At some point, hiding has to end.The conversation has to be had.The consequences need to be faced.The past mustRead more

If You Missed YesterdayYesterday we began with a simple question from Genesis 3: “Where are you?”After the fruit, after the rupture, after trust fractured, God called out to Adam, “Where are you?”Not because He lacked information.But because Adam needed honesty.Adam’s reply is the first true confession in Scripture:“I heard theRead more

Drawing the CircleImagine kneeling in the sand.With your hand, you draw a circle around you.A simple line marking space. A reminder of where you stand.There you are, in the center of the circle.That circle is not a wall. It is not a rejection of the world. It is not aRead more

A Word to Those in the Path of the BlizzardTo all who are being impacted by the winter storm moving across the Northeast, please take this seriously and take care of yourselves.Blizzards are not just inconveniences. They are powerful systems that can disrupt travel, strain power grids, and put vulnerableRead more

FIRST READING Genesis 2.7-9, 16-18,2-5; 3.1-7++ A reading from the book of Genesis. The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, inRead more

I have been thinking about how gently, and how stubbornly, the human heart resists being changed.Not in dramatic ways. Not in headline-making sins. But in the quieter places. The habits we have grown used to. The defensive reactions. The stories we tell ourselves about why we are the way weRead more

It usually happens quickly and quietly.You forgot your fast.You snapped at someone before coffee.You opened the news app when you promised yourself you wouldn’t.You ate the thing. Scrolled the thing. Said the thing.And then that familiar interior voice rises up, sharp and disappointed: Well, there goes Lent.So many people abandonRead more

When reconstruction becomes entangled with power, what does the Gospel demand of the Church?This week, news broke that Pope Leo declined an invitation from the United States to participate in a proposed “Board of Peace” overseeing reconstruction efforts in Gaza. The proposal, described by some as a stabilizing initiative, hasRead more

Opening: The Honesty of Ash WednesdayMy dear friends,Ash Wednesday is one of the most honest days of the Christian year. There is no spectacle. No spiritual theatrics. Just a thumb dipped in ash, a Cross traced slowly, and words that land deeper than we expect: “Remember that you are dust,Read more

My dear friends,A blessed Ash Wednesday to you. Today the Church speaks with quiet honesty. “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” These are not words meant to frighten us. They are words meant to free us. We are reminded that we are not self-sustaining, notRead more

This morning, someone will trace a cross of ash on your forehead. (I Hope… You’re going to go to Mass, right? 🧐 ) It will not be glamorous. You may get funny looks. It will not improve your brand with the mainstream.It will quietly say what the world spends enormousRead more