When we think of Job, we think of suffering. And it is true—Job suffered far more than any of us can imagine. Despite the fact
St. Joseph often slips under the radar because of his quiet demeanor and hidden life. However, he has much to teach us about growing in holiness.
“I’m just like you, Daddy,” says my little boy Peter to me one day, looking up at me with luminous eyes, as if being like
What is fasting? Refraining from food and drink as an expression of interior penance, in imitation of the fast of Jesus for 40 days in
It’s not about the deer, or birds, or rabbits. It’s about our sons, and what they need from us, their fathers. My youngest child, a
“The Great Adventurers of the modern world.” With these words Charles Péguy, the great French Catholic poet of the early twentieth century, honored the fathers
Forget the dads you see on Television: selfish, workaholic, lazy, absent, bullying, pushover dads. They do not deserve the name. Real dadness is bigger than
This post is part of a three part series. See parts one and two. Of all the duties of fatherhood, it is the munus regendi —the
This post is part of a three part series. See part one here. As we continue our look at the three munera, or duties, of fatherhood
In the introduction to this series, I wrote about how each father is entrusted with three duties, or munera in Latin, and that these three