This year has probably been the most difficult of my life so far. I’ve moved to a new place, started a new job, returned to a degree program that I began two years ago, and have spent the past few … Continue reading
Finding A Place Called Home
Category Archives: Book Reflections
Being Just in an Unfair World
It’s that time of month again- book forum week. Actually, it already passed, but I didn’t want to post my reflection before I actually had my class. As you might remember from my last book forum post, every month I … Continue reading
How Man Has Grown Old and God Has Stayed Young
As part of my studies at the John Paul II Institute, I am required to take part in book forums three times a semester. Normally, this means reading a 20th century work of Catholic literature (usually fiction, but occasionally poetry … Continue reading
How CCD (Nearly) Ruined A Generation of Catholics
I apologize in advance to anyone who might have stumbled upon the beginning of this blog post on Wednesday, July 23th. The incomplete draft of this post was accidentally published on my website before I was able to take it … Continue reading
I Fell in Love with Christ By Listening to CCM: Why I’m Not Ashamed of the Truth
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I recently finished reading the book “Rebuilt,” by Rev. Michael White and Thomas Corcoran, and I have spent the past few weeks reflecting on what was proposed by the authors as solutions to … Continue reading
Watching You Fall in Love: A Witness to Conversion
Over the past few weeks, I have had the chance to meditate a great deal on conversion, falling in love with Christ, and accepting His Church here on earth (which generally translates to forgiving its fallen members). It all began … Continue reading
Heaven Is For Real (And So Is Hell)
This past Easter, after attending Mass with my family and going out for our traditional Easter dinner at Papa Razzi, my mom and I decided it was the perfect night to see a movie. And so, after changing out of … Continue reading
The Fate of Books
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
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
Love in the Little Things 