The Cell at Lisieux
Two Lamps, Issue 22: Saints Thérèse of Lisieux & Rose of Viterbo, Thérèse's cell at the Carmel of Lisieux, an autumn afternoon in 1893
Deacon Michael Halbrook
Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined.
Permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Husband, father of four sons, builder of Catholic technology, and writer of essays, fiction, and homilies.
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Mission
The Sentence a Catholic Institution Can Speak with One Voice
Most Catholic institutions can answer what they exist to do, richly and honestly - and differently from every seat. The question is whether they have woven them into one.
What the Chain Found in Valencia
I am writing this chapter before we go to Valencia.
Faith & Life
Five Things Blessed Fulton Sheen Taught Us About the Mass
I wore my Holy Hour stole to Sheen's beatification - the one I wear every Sunday evening at our parish's hour of Adoration. They asked us to wear white. Mine was more gold. But I figured a man who spent 60 years before the Blessed Sacrament would understand.
Faith & Life
A Week in the Church
ICSC Conference, Sheen Beatification, Pope Leo in France, 40 parishioners diving into the Mass, teenagers showing up. Something is happening.
Heaven Opened
Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels | Revelation 12:7-12ab | Psalm 138 | John 1:47-51
Mara's Proposal
He packed on a Sunday evening, the night before his flight, with the specific care of a man who had been thinking about what to bring for three weeks.
The Confessional at San Giovanni Rotondo
Two Lamps, Issue 21: Saints Padre Pio & John Vianney, the confessional in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Giovanni Rotondo, in the autumn of 1936 after the last penitent has left
Those Who Hear and Act
Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time | Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13 | Psalm 21 | Luke 8:19-21
Aldric Again
The email from Aldric arrived on a Tuesday morning, two weeks after the October gathering, while Joshua was at the kitchen table writing the argument.
Faith & Life
Heading to New Orleans
The 64th International Catholic Stewardship Council Annual Conference