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Google+ Twitter Pinterest Facebook The Ache to Be Chosen Forget finding your passion. Living your vocation starts with admitting God chose you first. There is something in our human nature that craves to be seen. We long to be chosen, whether for a team, a promotion, a marriage, or a friendship. I remember never being…
Google+ Twitter Pinterest Facebook I’m convinced that the biggest crisis of our times is a crisis of hope. It has been said that we live in an era of fraud. There are many kinds of fraud: Many of us are aware of financial fraud, like the mortgage crisis of 2008 in which the selfishness and…
Google+ Twitter Pinterest Facebook  In today’s Gospel we hear that Jesus is getting ready to leave… again. I can imagine the distraught faces of the Apostles, and their sinking sense of dejavu. They might have said, “But Jesus, you already left us when you died! Now, you’re leaving us again?” But this time is…
Google+ Twitter Pinterest Facebook A few months ago some friends and I drove up to Austin to attend a graduation ceremony. We started talking about commencement speeches, and we noticed that most commencement speeches have two key elements in common. The first element is an emphasis on discovering your passion, talents, and gifts. The second…
Google+ Twitter Pinterest Facebook Today we celebrate a great feast of the Church, the solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. It is the biggest of the Marian feasts, and its mystery is derived from the mystery of the Incarnation, that God willed to become man, and more specifically, as the second reading said, that…
Google+ Twitter Pinterest Facebook Google+ Twitter Pinterest Facebook Finding Redemption Through Suffering The last two weeks have been marked by the prevalence of violence in our news media and social media. A couple of weeks ago, we remember the incident of Catholic school kids at Mass. A few days later, videos started surfacing about an…