On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I took a cue from Andy Rooney, famous writer, humorist, and commentator on the CBS television program, 60 Minutes. As he did on his sixtieth birthday, I sat down to write fifty things I had learned during my fifty years on the planet. Dusting them off recently, I […]
Most Holy Trinity, we soon begin the Lenten Season desiring to know you more clearly, love you more fully, and serve you more readily. Stir up the hearts of our lay faithful to hunger for a deeper relationship with each Person of the Trinity, and especially the One to whom they feel most distant. Mother Mary we ask your intercession in the spiritual battle for souls, that Satan’s strategy would be thwarted so that the truth about the power of prayer would be proclaimed and embraced during the Mission Week, and many more lay men and women would AWAKE & PRAY to join the people of the remnant. Amen.