by Derek Cummins | Jun 28, 2023 | Feast Days, Our Team Picks
Acedia is a spiritual sloth that holds us back from recognizing the Lord’s presence and embracing it. Instead, it leads us to look elsewhere, giving in to distraction and the fulfillment of our desires. By pushing off spiritual goods, we begin to see them as distant...
by Derek Cummins | Jun 22, 2023 | Fatherhood, Feast Days, Our Team Picks
My three-year-old son will often come up to me and say: “I love you, too.” Mind you, he’s not responding to me because I said “I love you” first. He just says it. But I think he might be on to something. When we talk about devotion to the Sacred Heart, which we just...
by Derek Cummins | Jun 21, 2023 | No Meat Meals, Our Team Picks
Serves 6 Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes These burgers always make me smile. I was skeptical when first trying to develop this recipe. The lack of fat caused a disaster when trying to cook them on the grill or in a skillet. So I baked them – problem...
by Derek Cummins | Jun 21, 2023 | Feast Days, Our Team Picks
Peter and Paul were very different men. Peter was married, a fisherman by trade, with no advanced studies beyond the synagogue school, who spent three years with Jesus and became head of the apostles. Paul, on the other hand, was a Roman citizen, who presumably...
by Derek Cummins | Jun 15, 2023 | Exodus 90, Fatherhood, Our Team Picks, What A Dad
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was once asked how he was going to treat the rebellious southerners once they had returned to the Union. The interlocutor expected that Lincoln would exercise supreme vengeance upon them, but Lincoln answered him saying, “I will...
by Derek Cummins | Jun 14, 2023 | Fatherhood, Feast Days, Our Team Picks
Jesus worked. Jesus suffered. Jesus loved. The Son of God became man and took on our humanity completely, though without sin. Why would he do such a thing? God could simply have saved us from his throne in heaven, but he wanted to associate himself with us as much as...
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