Some of us remember beginning every new page of school work with the heading A.M.D.G. A good number of us also recall that the letters stood for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,...
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help for prayer
I am not sure how I would pray if I did not have the regular rhythm of the prayers and scriptures of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. I am pretty sure my prayer...
Mystery of God
Here at Food For Faith I often quote the rector of the Mundelein seminary Robert Barron, and every week a link from the Hurunui parish website takes readers to his...
grandparents
The Sunday just past overtook the usual 26 July feast of Anna and Joachim, the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus, so I am quietly and gratefully celebrating the...
the IQ test
I "got burnt" with a bad experience of online game / surveys last week. My classmates at Mundelein thought it was a great joke...but before I share the details it needs...
which team?
If you were Pope Francis and had the opportunity to give a message to the young people of South America, what would you tell them? Before you read further, take a...
life-long adventure
As I come to the end of my summer semester of liturgical studies at the Liturgical Institute (Mundelein Seminary), I am grateful most of all for the robust vocational...
building beauty
One of my classes this morning with Denis McNamara got me thinking anew about beauty. It is commonly commented that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but certainly...
exams
Please keep in your prayer these days the students of the Liturgical Institute who are taking their final comprehensive exams for the MA degree over the next few days....
new chapel
Here at the Liturgical Institute there is a healthy daily rhythm of prayer (Morning and Evening Prayer of the Church and Mass) with class and study time - with some...
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engaging reality
Let’s retreat from from “those false and superfluous certainties around which we have constructed our daily schedules…”
that sinking feeling
We are faithful disciples when we calmly keep our gaze fixed on Christ. It is this gaze that saves us
a little bit
What the boy brings seems so insignificant in the face of the problem: “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”
mature faith
Thomas was not a doubter. Instead he was an adult seeking the verification that all adults need if we are to truly believe.
without fear
The experiences that feel like death are very often more like a birth offering different opportunities and invitations.