Ad Jesum per Mariam

Silent Strength: Lessons from St. Joseph, Spouse of Mary Today’s Gospel focuses on St. Joseph. As you know, there are several feasts honoring St. Joseph, while today the focus is on his role as the...

24 Mar 202512min

Awakened by Grace: Lent as a Call to Deeper Awareness A group of retreatants, after completing their retreat and visiting a shrine, . . . . . . were asked by a priest whether they had become holier o...

23 Mar 202511min

The Seven Last Words of Jesus From The Cross: Lenten Conference #3 From Mercy to Completion: A Journey Through the Seven Last Words This conference is a theological reflection centered on the Seve...

22 Mar 20251h 7min

When Prayers Go Unanswered: Faith Beyond Results The homily opens with a story about a young man frustrated by a vending machine, . . . . . . drawing a parallel to how people often treat God—as if H...

22 Mar 202512min

Loving Like God: The True Challenge of Lent During this season we are faced with the key challenges Christians are called to embrace during Lent— . . . . . . deepening our relationship with God thr...

20 Mar 202512min

More Than the Desert: Rediscovering Lent Through the Mountain It is generally the case as we move through the season of Lent. . . . . . that we hear the statement that during Lent, we are in the des...

18 Mar 202528min

Living Lent as People Baptized Into the Death of Christ This reflection opens with prayer and introduces the theme . . . . . . of a spiritual recollection centered on living out our baptism during ...

14 Mar 202540min

The Cross, the Choice, and the Call to Follow It sounds so deceptively simple. I place before you life or death and you get to choose. I place before you, the blessing and the curse, and you can ta...

11 Mar 202527min