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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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St. Catherine Labouré & The Miraculous Medal

Posted on May 23, 2021November 27, 2025 by Aidan McDermott

Our Blessed Mother has received great honor in both the Orthodox East and Catholic West since her time on earth. Like our Lord in the Eucharist, Mary has not left us. She has appeared to us all over the world also since early times in the Churc...
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Learning Everything That Is, Is Holy with Thomas Merton

Posted on April 13, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God (New Seeds, 21). In chapter four in New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas ...
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The Hopeful Message of Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 15, 2021March 1, 2022 by Tony Crescio

The Lenten Season begins tomorrow with the celebration of Ash Wednesday. And, while there is, to be sure, a certain solemnness to this celebration, it is worth considering at the outset of this season of repentance, the hopeful message it holds ...
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Learning to be Alone

Posted on February 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

The truest solitude is not something outside you, not an absence of men or of sound around you; it is an abyss opening up in the center of your own soul. (New Seeds, 80) In Ch. 11 of New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton offers a ri...
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When Home Décor becomes Doxology

Posted on January 28, 2021October 31, 2021 by Vanessa Crescio

As we welcome you into our humble Catholic home, you will notice in the entryway a modest Hobby Lobby quote block that reads: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). In this our home is far from unique. This line from Jo...
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Sowing in Tears

Posted on January 11, 2021November 28, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

Imprisoned for the first time in her young life (of the at least dozen times from 1917-1955), Dorothy Day lay in her cell shivering from the cold and starving. She had joined a group of suffragists in D.C. to protest the brutal treatment of impr...
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