Make Lent Your Getaway Vacation
We all know the feeling of being unplugged, and especially when people know we’re in a downtime reserved for repose and restoration. On a micro-scale, locking oneself in the bathroom to take a hot shower can be such a time. Both mind and body can close a door to the outside world. Many of […]
The Blessed Sacrament Restoring Scouting?
There is much talk about the state of scouting in North America. And rightly so. Youth are the future. Their proper formation in the fullness of truth is a big deal. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise but it did when I discovered that scouting ‘is’ being restored through the Blessed Sacrament. It […]
A Race In Which Everyone Can Be A Winner
I found myself re-reading Blessed Pope John Paul II’s homily of October 2000 on the Jubilee of Athletes as the creative and lavish opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Sochi began. He writes, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that […]
Love Bound To Service
Today on the memorial of the passing, or transitus, of St. Francis we also remember the humble Franciscan preacher and evangelizer St. John of Dukla. What a great model of love bound to service for us knights! “Jesus Christ was his only master. Imitating without reserve the example of his Master and Lord, he desired […]
The Papal Order of Chivalry Bestowed Upon Dolores and Bob Hope
Did you know? Blessed Pope John Paul II conferred one of the Papal Orders of Chivalry upon Dolores and Bob Hope and they became a Dame and Knight of St. Gregory the Great. Dolores Hope was born in Harlem to an Irish mother and an Italian father. She worked as a professional singer in New […]
In Solidarity with Saint Pope John Paul II, Put on the Shades
Put on the cool shades! In solidarity with Pope Saint John Paul II during Easter Week leading up to the canonization on April 27th — put on the cool shades of the saint who loved youth. We will. Saint John Paul II, pray for us! You knew that authentic humor is profoundly Catholic as it […]
Say Yes and Allow God to Work the Unexpected
With a single ‘fiat’ Mary fulfills Abraham’s journey of faith. It was Mary’s word that allowed the Eternal Word to walk among us and to speak to each one of us. So what does that mean to us today? Is it enough to call ourselves children of Abraham, children of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or […]