A Life Well-Lived

Fr. Mike offers a refreshing reason for fasting​ on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting shouldn’t be simply something Catholics do to show they are Catholic. It is a way to show God that we [...]

So it’s been a couple of years since I graduated college, and I’ve thought quite a bit about how my life has changed since then. If I could go back and talk to myself as a college [...]

I love winning and participation trophies are the worst. Participation trophies encourage laziness, create a false sense of entitlement and make remarkable air-rifle targets. After my mission [...]

In the same way we want to bury those pictures from the awkward years, we want to bury our mistakes. These memories are essential for our growth. Our whole being, past present and future must be [...]

We do get lost in our internal storms when we load unfitting significance onto everything that fills our scopes. A slight breeze becomes in our minds a gust large enough to derail us or an [...]

On May 6th 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds becoming the first person to break through the “four minute mile”. A feat thought impossible. So impossible that it was [...]

Another little tidbit about your local missionary: I really like to eat. This fondness for eating goes far beyond what is necessary. There are so many things about eating that I like; the [...]

Suffering. I know suffering. For starters, my new coffee mug does not fit under my Keurig. As if that is not enough, whenever I go to bed one pillow is always too low but two pillows is always [...]

In the beginning, there was the internet. The internet was a formless excess of content, and boredom covered the abyss. Thus spoke Zuckerberg, “Let there be Facebook.” Zuckerberg saw how good it [...]

It perhaps may be evident to you from my last two post that I have a slight inclining to be just an absolute brute of a man. You know, a “macho man”. Like a testosterone raging super-man. Like [...]