Around the feast of St. Faustina (Oct. 5th), I read a number of sections from her journal which was published and titled, “Divine Mercy in My Soul”. Although I’m quite Polish, her works never really struck out to me. I enjoy praying the Divine Mercy chaplet in Lent, I have…

There are 2 main points to this article. In 1206, St. Francis went to the Lateran Basilica to get his rule approved by Pope Innocent III because he heard Jesus speak to him from the crucifix. The Catholic Church is the largest, most powerful, and oldest institution in the world…

A Very, Very Beginning Introduction to Prayer Show up for Jesus as He is always there for you. It will take time to develop a life of prayer, and it needs to be a life of prayer, not just something you do when you got time. You don’t get to stop or take breaks from being a…

The 10th commandment, is traditionally put ,“You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.” We have two sources in the Old Testament for the 10 Commandments. Exodus 20 says: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his…

How else am I to know and love God? When I was applying for various criminal justice jobs (serve and protect was my only possible goal in life), I was asked a few things that I should have thought about earlier: Do you feel comfortable using a firearm to defend…

One of my goals for 2020 was to use Twitter a lot less. In fact I titled the post, “2020 and Mostly Quitting Twitter.” It was a good goal with good intentions, and then COVID happened. A lot of isolation, a lot less travel, etc. Everyone knows what this is…

Cal Newport, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and author of books on productivity wrote a book in 2019 called, “Digital Minimalism”. He says that social media is a massive time suck, the benefits of social media can be found in other avenues, and everyone would be better…

It is eight days or so into the riots over the death of George Floyd at the hands the police, the people who are supposed to protect and serve citizens. Since then, many other people died directly due to riots, the very thing these “protests” seem to be again. People…

When I was a senior in high school, my plan was to go to a local college to study criminal justice. It was the Spring of 2002 and 9/11 was fresh in peoples’ minds. Several of my classmates were also going to study criminal justice, some were entering the military…