I miss home. I miss sleeping in my room on Long Island. I haven’t been there since January and I won’t return until half way through August. I miss hearing my sister’s crazy music blasting from her room. I miss the air compressor going on and off in my dad’s garage at the wee hours of the morning. I miss my mom’s cooking. But all of these things are a sacrifice I’m willing to miss to serve the Lord who laid his life down for the salvation of my soul. As my time living in the physical

I love our Church! I really and sincerely do. I love everything about our Church. I love the sights of the buildings and the Liturgy, the sounds of the old Gregorian Chant music, the smells of the incense, the physicality (touch) of the priesthood, the taste of the Body and Blood of Jesus. I love it all! I think a lot of people agree with me about the beauty of our Church, but I think where our Church gets so much scrutiny is the “rules” or teachings that the Church “imposes” on the faithful.

Can you imagine if Jesus was a rock star how many people would be lining up to see Him? I’m sure every show would be sold out with thousands of people paying just to see a little man on a stage hundreds of feet away. I was praying my rosary before holy hour the other day and usually I look at the stained glass image of Jesus the Shepherd, or at the Crucifix, or sometimes my eyes wander out the window to watch the sun come up over the mountain and bring the light of day or even I just sit with

We did it! We finally said, “YES!” After two years of discernment we have decided to sell everything we have and follow Jesus by answering His call for our family to become full-time missionaries.

This decision will effect everyone we hold dear, from our extended family, to our beloved community. A decision, we pray, that will encourage others to live out their call to be missionaries in their everyday life.

A little while ago, I wrote a blog about simplifying my life and about how the simple things in life truly matter. I talked about how I’m beginning to enjoy and appreciate the little things in life. But I’m starting to think of other little things, and just how much the little things matter. The little things that I’ve begun to think more about are the little things in our Christian lives that we skip over and think of as unimportant or just think that they don’t matter that much. Just last week,

I have been a Eucharistic Minister before, but coming into a new diocese, it turns out I have to be trained within the diocese before being able to serve. And I thought, “oh, well that sucks!” And shrugged off this service I have been doing. But now, having the opportunity to be trained made me grow into a greater desire to become a Eucharistic Minister. I now see the “ministry” in Eucharistic Ministry.A ministry?Yes, let’s begin with the the “Eucharist” in Eucharistic Ministry. What is the

Dominic is this 75 year old man who was here on retreat with a parish this weekend and he said, in his opinion, that people no longer fight for anything, they give up so easily. Another couple who had been married for 65 years was asked in an interview “How did you do it?” and the husband responded that “In my days, when something was broke we didn’t throw it away”.  The more I thought about these comments; I realized how true it is. How often do I take the easy way out just because

This is an exciting time to be Catholic. Many may think this is a dark time for the Church but the Church is in the light. I think Pope Benedict made such a humble decision knowing that due to his health he cannot be at his best to guide the Church. Here are 2 of my favorite quotes from him:   “Dear friends, Truth is not an imposition. Nor is it simply a set of rules. It is a discovery of the One who never fails us; the One whom we can always trust. In seeking truth we come to live by belief

What does it mean to say YES? This has been the question that has been encompassing my every thought. I’ve been writing the word YES on my hand everyday for the past few weeks. When I don’t want to wake up in the morning, or love someone in my community the way they deserve to be loved then I glance down at my hand and remember. But, am I really going to take all that comes with a YES? I’m finding out slowly what my YES to Life Teen Missions means. For me it means: Loving when I’m tired, Taking