Writings for the Journey

One of the graces available to the Christian is an experience of inner joy. It is one of the fruits of the Spirit given to us at our Baptism. How can we activate it? It does not depend on what we have going on in our lives and the circumstance that we are facing such...

What is it about love that makes it the prime motivation for the creation of all things? For the believer this means that all of creation comes for the same source, even the leaf on a tree. This love was so intense that it enabled the Christ to become flesh and dwell...

With the Constitution on Laity of Vatican II, lay women and men in the Catholic Church were challenged to be people of God who – through words and action – would bring Christ’s message to the world. To participate as adults in the mission of the Church requires lay...

For Father Moreau, family spirit was the underpinning of community life. Bringing the Brothers of St. Joseph and the small group of priests under his care together and later adding religious sisters, he placed his community under the devotion of the Holy Family. The...

“We asked how we might follow you, and we found many footprints on the road. A great band of men and women had passed this way… people who had walked side by side in the following of Our Lord.” (Holy Cross Constitution: 1) Yes, we received an individual call to...

As we grow in the spiritual life we become open to a conversion of the whole self. Not relying simply on logic or emotions from our devotions, Jesus asked in his first commandment to love God with our whole being which includes our body, our mind, our heart and our...

The Eucharist for Catholics is a sign of unity and peace.  Jesus says in the Gospel of John, “That they may be one in us as the Father and I are one.” While the word, “catholic” means universal and was given to the Church to represent peoples from many difference...

While Jesus was teaching on two occasions in far off places, he became aware that the people listening to him had traveled a long distance, and they were hungry. He was attentive to their needs and provided food for them. Sometimes in our reaching out to others with...

Father Moreau tells his followers “Let us be tabernacles of God since His Kingdom is within us. We have our consecration in the waters of our baptism with its seal as the children of God.”Through our baptism we have been given the grace to be priests, prophets and...