Catholics love ritual! There is something comforting and predictable about it; ritual shapes our lives and helps give shape to our community. Mass...
Evangelized by the Poor: Literacy and the Word of God
The Word of God floods my life in Holy Cross. I follow along with the universal Church as she hears the Scriptures proclaimed throughout the...
Never Bored: Life as a Holy Cross Parish Priest
As a Holy Cross religious who has devoted much of my priesthood to parish ministry, I am looking forward to writing this monthly blog for the next...
Intentional Living at the Holy Cross Novitiate
Sometimes people ask what it is we do up here at the Holy Cross novitiate all day. It’s a fair question. The postulancy for the Congregation of Holy...
A Window of Angels
For generations, young men being formed to become Holy Cross priests and brothers have done so under the watchful gaze of five angels. Spanning the...
Hospitality: Creating a Space for Encounter
It’s hard to believe, but the first quarter of the academic year here at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis is already drawing to a close. This...
Cultivating Wonder
As part of my doctoral program this semester, I have the pleasure of serving as a Teaching Assistant for an introductory theology course for honors...
Stories of Holy Cross: Fr. Valentine Czyzewski, C.S.C.
E Pluribus Unum — "One out of many" — is an epithet the United States sometimes uses to describe itself as a nation made up of many different ethnic...
Finding the “Missionary Charism”
Before I entered the Congregation of Holy Cross, I spent a year as a lay missionary teaching in a high school in Nairobi, Kenya. I found great joy...