For many years now, the priesthood ordinations for our province have been held on the Saturday after Easter. As that date rapidly approaches this...
Surrexit Christus Hodie: Today Christ is Risen!
Excerpts from Bl. Fr. Moreau's Spiritual Exercises for Holy Cross religious and his Christian Meditations, found in "Basil Moreau: Essential...
Ecce Lignum Crucis, Behold the Wood of the Cross
Collected here are three passages on the Cross of our Lord. The Holy Cross plays a key role in the spirituality of our Congregation, but especially...
Climbing the Holy Stairs
Over Spring Break I had the privilege of going on a pilgrimage to Rome with fellow seminarians and a group of men from Notre Dame and Holy Cross...
Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum
This week the Church enters into the greatest drama of all time; the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. I find it to be one...
We See Lifted Up Our Only Hope
"When I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all men to myself " (Jn 12:32). As I stood among the concelebrants surrounded by about 20,000 people...
First Time Catholic Teacher
It is my great privilege to be spending this year working at Saint Joseph High School as a student teacher. I spent the fall semester sitting in on...
The Marriage of Life and Ministry
As I was fishing some Corn Pops out of our baptismal font the other day, one of our parishioners turned to me and said: "Fr. Brian, your life has...
Please, Lord, Change Me
This Lent perhaps we could spend some time considering what is happening when we engage in intercessory prayer. When we pray for another, are we...