15 August 2013
15 August 2013 Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Late summer is a special time for Jesuits, as we celebrate the feast of ...
14 August 2013
14 August 2013 Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe The twentieth century was the worst in history, not principally because of the unprecedented ...
13 August 2013
13 August 2013 Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time This summer I participated in MAGIS, a ten-day experience for pilgrims from ...
12 August 2013
12 August 2013 Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Rio de Janeiro’s most famous landmark is the Cristo Redentor, a hundred-foot-tall ...
11 August 2013
11 August 2013 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time I recently returned from two weeks in Brazil, where I celebrated World Youth Day along with 3 ...
10 August 2013
10 August 2013 Feast of St. Lawrence “Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies….” That is what He was: the grain of wheat that fell ...
9 August 2013
9 August 2013 Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of ...
8 August 2013
8 August 2013 Memorial of St. Dominic There was puzzlement that the Jesuit Cardinal Bergoglio should take the name “Francis” as pope. Yet this ...
7 August 2013
7 August 2013 Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Enemies. Part of our humanity is to have enemies. Not only the individual ...
6 August 2013
6 August 2013 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord “You will do well to be attentive to it [the prophetic message] as to a lamp shining in ...