I am in East Peoria these days, giving a week long retreat to the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis.  On August 21, 1875 a commu...

August 30 was the feast of St. Jeanne Jugan, the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. I celebrated Mass at St. Joseph’s Home in ...

I am half way between New York City and Albany at St. Joseph Camp which the Sisters of Life are using for their retreat. I am with Fr. Ch...

I have been giving a retreat this week to Nano Nagle’s Sisters in Aberdeen, South Dakota. They are known as the Sisters of the Presentatio...

I'm at my old "stomping grounds," the Jesuit Retreat House in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, located on Lake Demontreville and often re...

I am in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, where I am in the middle of a retreat for the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Je...

For most of the world, today is the Feast of the Visitation, but here, at the Toledo Visitation Monastery , it's a Solemnity, the highes...

The first novena or nine day period of prayer took place in the first century (see Acts of the Apostles 1: 4, 13-14). After rising from the...

I am blessed to be in the second day of an eight day retreat that I am giving to the Carmelite Sisters of Flemington, New Jersey .  So far ...

On December 15, 1912, Fr. Luigi Guanella boarded a ship to take him across the Atlantic to the United States.  He was 70 and the winter seas...

I'm in Lake Zurich, Illinois these days, at a place called Mount St. Joseph .  It's a care facility for developmentally disabled a...

The woman who founded the  Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate  with whom I've been on retreat this week is Mother Mary Teresa Tallon.  ...

I'm in Monroe, NY these days, giving a retreat to the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate .  This group of consecrated women was founded...

While giving a retreat to some Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma Michigan , I've been privileged to share in their prayer life.  While ...

Since last Tuesday I've been in Alma, Michigan where I began a retreat for some of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma-- 2 novices...

I walked past this triptych of St. Jeanne Jugan several times a day for the last week.  It's on a wall in the St. Ann's Novitiate ...

I'm finishing my retreat with the Little Sisters of the Poor whose foundress was canonized in 2009. St. Jeanne Jugan, also known as Sist...

Blessed Luigi Guanella is being canonized in Rome today. When he was a seminarian he enrolled in the Apostleship of Prayer which he saw as...

I've heard that the earliest known image of Jesus depicts him as the Good Shepherd. Today's Gospel (Luke 12: 39-48) gives a very dif...

Blessed Luigi Guanella is going to be canonized on October 23 this year. I first made his acquaintance last year when I gave a retreat to s...