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There is no Promised Land without the Red Sea. There is no Easter without Good Friday. There is no resurrection without the tomb.

I will be celebrating Mass at the Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest at 10 AM on April 5th to celebrate Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, the first day of Ho...

"We are not self-sufficient; by ourselves we flounder: we need the Lord, like ancient navigators needed the stars."

Who knows? Maybe it was for this moment of outbreak and quarantine that God called me to go on Exodus 90.

It’s crazy to think how fast everything has changed in the last 10+ days. I originally had planned to post something last Thursday to mark my arrival at the ...

When we begin Lent, we focus so much on what we give up for God and how far we must go. But the Spirit reminds us that Lent is a journey from fasting to feas...

This week I’m in St. Louis for a week of intensive classes as part of my ongoing studies in homiletics. That means a week out of my usual routine. What I can...

“Halfway in is all the way in.” One of the other men in my Exodus 90 fraternity was encouraging all of us at our last fraternity meeting. Almost to a man, al...

On Saturday morning my shower exploded. Soon after turning on the cold water, I heard a loud POP and suddenly water was spraying from all the wrong places. I...

When my friend asked me to be the spiritual director for the Exodus 90 group he was getting together, I didn’t know what to expect. When I was in the parish,...