I’ve broken a lot of promises over the course of my twenty-five years of life. Some promises needed to be broken, but there are some promises that I am ashamed to admit I’ve broken- like the time that I promised … Continue reading
The Fate of Books
Category Archives: Book Reflections
Quotes and Reflections from Matthew Kelly’s “Rediscover Catholicism”: Part 2
Considering the amount of interest in my first blog post on Matthew Kelly’s book “Rediscover Catholicism,” I’ve decided to dedicate one more blog post to reflecting on several quotes from the book. As I suggested in my first post, this … Continue reading
Quotes and Reflections from Matthew Kelly’s “Rediscover Catholicism”: Part 1
Several months ago, I had the great pleasure of reading Matthew Kelly’s “The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic,” a terrific book identifying the four unique characteristics of what Kelly referred to as “dynamic Catholics,” those parishioners who are the … Continue reading
Before Sin: Life in Paradise
I recently finished reading C.S. Lewis’ science fiction novel Perelandra, the second book in his Space Trilogy. In the first book, Out of the Silent Planet, the main character, Elwin Ransom, traveled to the planet Mars, known as Malacandra to … Continue reading
Defeating the Dragon
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.” – G. K. Chesterton When I was in college, I was assigned one of the most … Continue reading
Quote and Reflections from “Meditation” by Thomas Merton (Part 2)
I had originally intended to devote one blog post on Thomas Merton’s “Meditations,” but the time I had finished sorting through all the amazing information in the book, I had enough material for two posts. It’s partly because I just … Continue reading
Quotes and Reflections from “Meditation” by Thomas Merton (Part 1)
I originally purchased Thomas Merton’s “Spiritual Direction and Meditation” because I’ve been in the midst of changing spiritual directors, and I wanted to read more on the topic as I reflected on whether the Lord was calling me to continue … Continue reading
Quotes and Reflections from “Spiritual Direction” by Thomas Merton
Spiritual direction is a practice that recently has received a great deal of publicity about the Catholic laity. While it was once something primarily connected with the religious life, it has since become something embraced by the Catholic world at … Continue reading
Evangelization, Love, and Friendship
One of my favorite subjects of reflection is definitely evangelization, which probably doesn’t surprise many of you considering how many posts I’ve dedicated to the topic over the past few weeks. Evangelization is a key part of my ministry, especially … Continue reading
“Taken, Blessed, Broken, and Given”: Further Reflections of Henri Nouwen’s “Life of the Beloved”
I spent last week reflecting on some of my favorite quotes from my latest spiritual reading book, Henri Nouwen’s “Life of the Beloved,” and I’d like to continue along the same lines with this next post. In my last post, … Continue reading
