It’s as if we’re in a tsunami of ceremonies these past days. The recent Paschal Triduum (The Solemn Commemoration of Jesus’ Passion, Death, and Resurrection -- from Holy Thursday to the Easter Vigil) featured several rites, with the Vigil itself as the “mother of...

I took advantage of the schedule, silence, and serenity of my recent spiritual retreat to write these lines. Holy Week might be over, but this year I intentionally timed my retreat on this sacred moment, this venerable high point in the Catholic liturgical calendar. I...

In my previous blog entry, I used a word that happens to be, well, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016. That word is post-truth. I recall something from my Youth Culture classes. In merely a couple of years or so, things have evolved so fast. And a few...

In this era of point-and-click, swipe-and-tap fingertip convenience, you can readily read it for yourself. “European bishops summit makes appeal to jaded youth” -- so goes the headline (or title) of a news article in the Catholic website Crux, dated March 29, 2017....

This present Lenten season seems to offer us the “choicest cuts” when it comes to the liturgical readings. We are getting nothing but the best of God’s Word these days! Just take the First Reading yesterday (the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A), as a case-in-point. It’s...

Bring it on! It’s that time of the year, anyway. And it’s all par for the course. I’m referring (for us here in DBCS) to the final examinations, theological synthesis presentations, thesis defenses, project paper presentations, submission of requirements, and so on....