People ask me what the students are responding to with the death of Charlie Kirk. I’m trying to listen to them and understand. I have much yet to learn but I do know the Cross is connected and the Christian needs to widen our awareness to include both Jesus’ saving Mercy and our own person sin.

What ways are we being asked to be his disciples? To follow him requires to give things up, to give up peoples thoughts and opinions.

However, how this happens is through a group of people and individually. Consider how this happens.

Dawson Lee as a disciple followed Christ into the Catholic Church. Today he received the sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist!

when someone gives you a gift and it is apparent they know you, it is such a blessing. But humidity is even great! Jesus is the perfect gift.

Start to the new year and we liked the people in Scripture are gathered from many places. We are called by God to belong to his family. We recognize Jesus today by the signs of Him Presence.

our initial understanding may not be correct. It is helpful to pause and consider if things are meant differently than we first think they are.

With 9 in 10 cradle Catholics leaving the Church, it’s worth asking ourselves why we go to Mass?

An interesting insight is offered in the first reading (Joshua 3:7). What helps us understand both why we go to Mass and what we should be doing through our participation?

Our lives have moments that Jesus calls us to be attentive to. Listen to your heart and circumstances in order to know what He is calling you to. Then when your “short” life is at the end, you will be eager for your “forever” to to begin!

We are all rich in various things: amenities of life, intellect, beauty, personality, and of course wealth.

what are we to do with these if Jesus says we aren’t to store up treasure?

When death gets close, at times it pierces deeply. It can be hard to believe that God is near. At such times there are two options.

Gardens are beautiful: God places the pinnacle of creation, man and woman, in a garden. However he also suffered in a garden and so did the First Roman Martyrs. They were tortured in Nero’s garden.

we too are given beautiful places but to follow Jesus will also lead to places of suffering and pain. Maybe not like actual death but how heard it is to die to our own wills!