St. Anthony Mary Claret was a Spaniard who was ordained in 1835. He tried to join the Carthusian order but was rejected because of poo...

I presided and preached at my Jesuit community’s Christmas celebration today. The readings were from the Mass During the Day: Isaiah 52: 7...

Have you heard of the new site called “ O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ”?   Each First Friday of the month, a day traditionally dedicated ...

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

Fr. Bernard McGuckian, S.J., the Apostleship of Prayer director for Ireland, has been visiting me for the past few weeks.  In the course of ...

I am the sacristan in my community of 50 or so Jesuits at Marquette University. That means I am busy these days preparing the chapel for the...

Last Sunday I was at Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House in Barrington , IL and I had the opportunity to preach. The first reading from the sev...

Here are the last three of the daily reflections that I wrote for the Magis Center for Catholic Spirituality . Thursday, December 15, 2011 W...

Here are some more reflections, for today and tomorrow, that I did for the Magis Center for Catholic Spirituality . While I was able to put ...

I've been having a busy Advent. On the First Sunday of Advent I was still in Rome for the meeting of the International Advisory Council...

I will be leading my Jesuit community's "Celebration of the Lord's Passion" this afternoon. I can't help approaching t...

Last Friday night and Saturday morning I joined Fr. Phil Hurley, the Apostleship of Prayer's youth and young adult director, and three ...

The Apostleship of Prayer began in a Jesuit seminary in France in 1844. The spirituality of making a daily offering comes right out of the ...

Every month I'm a guest on Relevant Radio's daily call-in spiritual direction show "The Inner Life," hosted by Chuck Nef...

On Christmas Day, 472 years ago, St. Ignatius Loyola celebrated his first Mass. He had been ordained 18 months earlier, on the feast of the...

I'm back from my annual eight day retreat and in reporting on it I can't help thinking about the word "retreat." It often ...

I stayed an extra day in southern California after my recent retreat there. No. It wasn't just to avoid the cold and gray Wisconsin Nov...

On Thursday I got up bright and early (something more to "offer up") in order to catch a 6 AM flight to Orange County, California ...

I was on Relevant Radio's call-in spiritual direction show "The Inner Life" today. Every Friday the topic is determined by th...

"Summer time, and the livin' is easy." So goes a song of George Gershwin that premiered in the 1935 musical "Porgy and B...