Benedictine influence upon liturgy as both prayer and an academic subject spans centuries. It is also found in my own short life. In grade school...
Christ in the Vet
As we begin Holy week, many reflections come to heart and mind. We are blessed at André House to have some powerful Holy Week activities and...
Holy Week: Accompanying Jesus to Jerusalem
Today is the day of great expectations. Jesus, thought by the masses to be the long-awaited Messiah, enters Jerusalem triumphantly. He is given an...
Unannounced, yet welcomed
In the following post, David Mahin, a senior at Siegfried Hall at the University of Notre Dame, recounts his experience of finding hospitality at...
Attending to the Sick
One of the lessons I learned early in my priesthood was the importance of visiting the sick and homebound of the parish. Twenty-one of my 27 years...
Go to Joseph
St. Joseph has always been a part of my life. I was born in St. Joseph Hospital to a mother named Josephine, and she was born on the feast of St....
Machu Picchu and Standing Before God’s Creation
When I tell my US friends that I live in Perú, most of them will quickly ask if I had seen Machu Picchu. Now I can say I have! In February,...
Being Formed into Christ’s Shepherds
One of the great gifts of Blessed John Paul II to the Church was his exhortation "Pastores Dabo Vobis", given twenty years ago this month. In it the...
Seek out the lost sheep
During my first three years at the University of Portland, I have appreciated it as a tremendous center of human talent, creativity and excellence....