• As a professional speaker, casinos are my least favorite places to speak. Even if I’m just trying to get to the meeting room, I have to walk through the gaming area. They’re designed that way. Gambling isn’t my thing, but I understand it can be fun entertainment with friends at night or on the weekend. However, I get super judgey…

  • “Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, so full of love and humility that I may receive Jesus as you did and go in haste to give Him to others.” – St. Teresa of Calcutta (September 8th is the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, her birthday!)

  • Everybody says they want peace. But do they really? Do you? Last weekend I served as a lector at Mass and proclaimed the reading from the first book of Kings, in which Elijah heard the voice of God not in the storm, earthquake, or fire, but in a still, small voice. (1 Kings 19:9-13) God still works that way…

  • Prayer for the Assumption of MaryFather in heaven, all creation rightly gives you praise, for all life and all holiness come from you.In the plan of your wisdom, she who bore the Christ in her womb was raised body and soul in glory to be with him in heaven. May we follow her example in reflecting your holiness and…

  • It’s that time of year when many young adults are leaving home for the first time. The future is calling, and college is the obvious next step. I feel bad they’ve been led to believe they must confidently declare what they will do for the rest of their lives. I feel worse for their future selves, many of whom…

  • “My Mother watches over you. She is your advocate and your perpetual help. Go to her confidently with your doubts, your worries, and your fears. Trust in her maternal Heart is never misplaced, and she will never disappoint you.” – Excerpts from In Sinu Jesu (by a Benedictine Monk) Learn the symbolism behind the Our Lady of Perpetual Help…

  • Every single airplane was grounded by the storms surrounding the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. I wasn’t worried. Kim and I had a three-hour layover in Detroit. Plenty of cushion! We sat on the plane for over an hour before the storm passed. Then the pilot came on to tell us that our fuel tanks were too hot — is that…

  • “If you put all the love of all the mothers into one heart, it would still not equal the love of the Heart of Mary for her children.” -St. Louis De Montfort

  • Andre Cassagnes, the dude who invented the Etch-a-Sketch, was an electrical technician. Cassagnes came up with the idea in his garage when he peeled a translucent decal from a light switch plate and found pencil mark images transferred to the opposite face. Initially dubbed the Telecran, the toy was renamed L’Ecran Magique, or ‘The Magic Screen,’ and made its debut…

  • “Glorious St. Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee under thy special protection. Vouchsafe to recommend it to thy Daughter, the…