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.
He sat down and told me he thought he was done climbing. He wasn't sure he was allowed to say that. What surfaced next changed how I think about every career decision - my own included.
She called on a Wednesday evening, which was not what he had been expecting.
On prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and the work I was made for
Two Lamps, Issue 11: Saint Benedict of Nursia and Saint Brigid of Kildare, the double monastery at Kildare, Ireland, an evening in the late summer of 524
I did not know, when I arrived in Alton in 1948, that the record was already here.
On an old article, a kindred spirit, and the beatification ahead
On stepping back, saying no, and seeking first the Kingdom
Mara's reply arrived on a Tuesday, which gave him two days to sit with it before Thursday.
Two Lamps, Issue 10: Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati and Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the upstairs bedroom of the Frassati family house, Via Lamarmora, Turin, the night of July 3, 1925