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The Wisdom of Wisdom!

BlogJuly 7, 2021434Views0Likes1Comment
One of the most difficult realities I’ve had to face as an adult, as a priest, as a husband, and as a father is waking up to the reality of the complexity of each human person I encounter, including myself. This continuous process of discovery has me regularly seeing places of spiritual progress and immaturity…

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Know When to Fold Them!

BlogJuly 6, 2021467Views0Likes0Comments
Sometimes you just gotta cut your losses! But how do you do that, especially when emotions are involved? It seems I was at a very familiar place in my life. Being someone who loves to help and loves to be seen as a benefit in someone else's life, I was once again hitting a brick wall…

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Taking Time To Rest IS Godly!

BlogJuly 5, 2021355Views0Likes0Comments
Ah, summertime! The season of vacations, a more relaxed pace of life, adventures, and warm weather. “Summertime and the livin’ is easy….” Summertime is such a wonderful time of year. But our society is one in which most Americans take little to no vacation time. The drive to produce creates the sense that I always have…

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The Way of Excellence

BlogJuly 1, 2021519Views0Likes0Comments
“Excellence” is a term we hear a lot in sports and in business. And that ties the word to an idea of achievement or progress. But there is also an application of “excellence” when it comes to your relationship with God, and that has little to do with achievement or progress and everything to do with…

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Father Is Not A Title!

BlogJune 30, 2021607Views0Likes0Comments
"Father is not a title!" By now my parishioners and catechumens are sick of hearing me say this. But I say it so much because there is real healing truth in this reality. The Church isn't some collection of "club members" or a "society for the preservation of baklava." No, the Church is a Family.…

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I Boast In Christ

BlogJune 29, 2021351Views0Likes0Comments
The great American poet Henry David Thoreau said "If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself." I like that. The truth is most of us who were raised with an expectation of decorum, dignity, and virtue were raised to avoid boasting as it…

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Faith Encouraged TV

BlogJune 28, 2021421Views0Likes0Comments
Dear Faith Encouraged TV Friends and Supporters, It's that time of year again, and I wanted to thank you for your faithful partnership with Faith Encouraged TV. We will have a 4th of July Homily, but then we will be away for several weeks and I ask your prayers. Our Daily Devotionals will continue through the Summer…

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The Real Jew

BlogJune 28, 2021409Views0Likes0Comments
"Now THAT's a real American!" The conversation centered, as all conversations seem to during an election year, on a particular political idea. The enthusiastic judge of what a "true American" really is was thrilled that the talking head on some 24-hour news station agreed with his idea in the first place. And, it was that…

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