Dear Friends, If you have ever taken a road trip with young children, you know the proverbial, “Are we there yet?” comes about the time they exhaust the car games and snacks, or maybe after the first round of Veggie Tales or The Lion King. Then, diversions are presented one ...

Dear Friends in Christ, Have you ever seen a poor person going through a pile of trash? It saddens me to remember, but I have seen it occasionally along the broken streets and buildings left by the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti, and in very ...

Dear Friends in Christ, What is love? God is love. How do I know love? Because I am loved. An unloved being can’t know love. It is a terrible tragedy to not know you are loved. God loves us, so we know love. We exist because of his loving thought, ...

Dear Friends, My older brother was born with Down’s Syndrome. I could fill volumes with Michael’s antics and the little lessons he taught me over his nearly 60 years of life, but I would like to share just one. Some years past, an uncle suffered a stroke, and there was ...

Dear Friends, If you have driven the stretch of I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, you may have noticed what appears to be a tall glass house on a hill. This is the Holy Family Shrine, a truly majestic chapel, overlooking the highway and beckoning travelers to contemplate the Divine. Inside, ...

Dear Friends in Christ, “Give me a drink.” We hear in this Sunday’s Gospel Jesus asking the Samaritan woman for a drink. Most of us are familiar with this story in the Gospel. In preparing for this reflection, I was struck by the almost indignation expressed by the Samaritan. “How ...

Dear Friends,  Upon my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him but found him not; I called him but he gave no answer. “I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom ...

Dear Friends, “Even if the world were to capsize, if everything were to become dark, hazy, and tumultuous, God would still be with us”. These are comforting words from a saint for our times, Padre Pio. All one has to do today is turn on the news or scroll through ...