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Looking in the Mirror of Scripture

Posted on February 15, 2022June 5, 2022 by Tony Crescio

Sixth Week in Ordinary Time: Wednesday-Year II When is the last time you went a day without looking in the mirror? Looking in the mirror is something that, I dare say, is something that we tend to do quite often, perhaps more often than we sh...
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An Enterprise of Mercy: Business That Serves Humanity

Posted on January 24, 2022March 1, 2022 by Vanessa Crescio

“All human activity, including business, can be an exercise in mercy, which is partaking in God’s love for mankind … Enterprises exist to serve” (Pope Francis, Nov. 17, 2016, to the Participants in the International Conference of the Chris...
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The Little Drummer Boy’s Gospel

Posted on December 15, 2021January 25, 2022 by Tony Crescio

Of the many holiday songs which saturate the airwaves during the Advent and Christmas seasons and can be heard played in Christmas concerts, The Little Drummer Boy is perhaps one of the best known. In fact, as Kathy Warnes writes in her article,...
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Mary: A Woman of the Word

Posted on October 6, 2021June 6, 2022 by Tony Crescio

Happy Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary! “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:5). With this short statement, Mary gives us the Christian program for life, a regiment which she had followed very closely, not only after giving birth to the Son o...
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Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

Posted on October 2, 2021October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

Blessed Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels to you! Today’s celebration of the Guardian Angels has the tendency to take us back to childhood. After all, for many of us, the prayer to our guardian angel is among the first we learn. Angel o...
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Accompaniment Leadership: Walking in the Footsteps of Christ

Posted on September 26, 2021January 7, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“As they led him away they took hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian who was coming in from the country; and after laying the cross on him, they made him carry it behind Jesus” (Luke 23:26). As I made my way down the long hallway of offices, I...
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Holding on with Open Hands as Imitatio Christi

Posted on August 12, 2021October 31, 2021 by Vanessa Crescio

“So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it” (Genesis 3:6). Contrary to some beliefs, the Bible passage highlighting the temptation in the Garden of Eden and subsequent fal...
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The Second Vatican Council: A FRESH Look

Posted on July 20, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

Standing before you I tremble somewhat with emotion but am humbly resolute in my purpose to proclaim a twofold celebration: a diocesan synod for the city of Rome, and a general Council for the universal Church (Giuseppe Alberigo, A Brief History...
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Cultivating and Sharing the Fruit of the Spirit

Posted on July 5, 2021May 19, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit (Gal 5:25). In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, He warns: “Beware of false prophets… by their fruits you will know them. Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad...
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Prophets and Profits: Fulfilling our Baptismal Responsibilities in Business

Posted on June 14, 2021October 31, 2021 by Vanessa Crescio

“And you, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High...” Benedictus (Lk 1:76) “It’s not personal, it’s just business,” a common phrase spewed by many a savvy business manager to justify uncomfortable or otherwise unjustifiable yet...
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