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Sing Sweet Spring | Saint Louis de Montfort

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Saints emerge from the times in which they live, and Saint Louis de Montfort lived in a time not all that different than our own. It was a matter of b...

An Ocean of Second Chances | The Monday After

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I grew up “looking in” at the Church. I felt that way even when I was in the Seminary studying for the priesthood, like I didn’t really belong t...

A Resuscitating Friendship | The Monday After

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With time and openness to the resuscitating friendship of Christ, friendship between men is possible. Lazarus shows us this.

Alone Together with The Eternal Sunrise | The Monday After

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

To be Christian is to be alone, but to be alone together with Christ and with one another in the Church. We are those blessed few who have been sought...

An Unexpected Restoration to Life | The Monday After

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Life isn't programmed, but it isn't entirely random either. It seems that Our Lord knew the Samaritan woman would be at the well, just as He knows whe...

Hope for Family Life and World War | The Monday After

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Is it necessary that all conflict must become all-out war? Is the annihilation of the enemy what makes for peace? Or, is there some way to permit that...

Authority Alone Drives Out Demons | The Monday After

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What drives out demons is not fascination with evil; that often makes it worse. Rather, fascination with Christ reorders us. When we humble ourselves ...

Artificial Intelligence vs. Real Knowledge | The Monday After

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The developers of AI began by directing their large languages models through a kind of Constitution, “Do this, and don’t do that,” but they quic...

To Be Light and Salt | The Monday After

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A word about coming alive by dying to ourselves, finding fulfillment in emptying ourselves, and living with Christ on the cross.

The Fire of Faith and Its Fireplace | The Monday After

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the heart of every man there is a desire for God that burns like a fire in need of a fireplace, lest it burn destructively in the world. The Church...

Is our problem really the law? | The Monday After

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We hear people saying, "Law! Law! Law!" And we've got great laws, and a great Constitution. So what's the problem? Why isn't yelling, "Law!" working? ...

Members of His Household | The Monday After

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We are God's children now, no longer dogs on the street. We once lived by instinct and appetite alone, but now we live by God's Spirit, which illumina...

Can a man accept the whole truth about God? | The Monday After

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If he would be truly wise, yes. By God's grace, a man can surrender his gold for the treasures offered to us in Christ, his frankincense for the true ...

Is it okay to ask God for signs? | The Monday After

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Believing in miracles is essential to our Faith, since the Sacraments are all miracles. But it's still more important to ask what God may be trying to...

The Monday After | Saint Joseph, A Good Parent

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I suppose most parents will say to their children, "You can be whatever you want to be when you grow up," but I don't imagine that Our Lady and Saint ...

The Monday After | Knowledge of Mary, The Golden Key in a Red Bag

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A little boy came to me after Mass yesterday, showing me a gold key in a red bag. It turned out to be a good way of understanding the intercession of ...

The Monday After | Knowledge of Jesus

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An unexpected introduction to a man and his son at a Christmas party has led me to a deeper knowledge of Jesus. I begin and end this 3rd Advent reflec...

The Monday After | Knowledge of The Self

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we spoke of emptying ourselves of the spirit of the world in order to make room for the Holy Spirit. In this episode, we'll move into a wor...

The Monday After | Emptying Ourselves of the Spirit of the World

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first part of a four-week spiritual preparation for Christmas, beginning with a word (based on the Mass readings for the First Sunday of A...

The Monday After | From One Happy Thief to Another on the Feast of Christ the King

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to implore all people - especially leaders of Totalitarian States - to allow Chri...

The Monday After | Should We Be Afraid?

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The title's a bit click-baity, but it was either that or "Sure Feels Like the End Sometimes," which also seemed a bit of a ploy. In any case, this Sun...

The Monday After | I Could Be Wrong - Thank God

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I propose, in this homily, a way of understanding the kind of help that Jesus is trying to offer us. It seems to me that he dwells in us in order to h...

The Monday After | on Purgatory and Waiting with Beatific Vision

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We do not like waiting. Well, in any case, we're not good at it, which is obvious; in this age of invention we've all but eliminated the need to wait ...

The Monday After | How Could He Ask Emily for Help?

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The title of this episode is a reference to the film, The Crossing Guard, which I mention toward the end of the reflection in the hope of illustrating...

The Monday After | Conception Overcomes Deception

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Looking forward to the end of time with hope requires conceiving of our lives by the Holy Spirit in light of the promises God makes to us in the Scrip...

The Monday After | About a Girl at The Bar

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If being together at Mass on Sundays is called "practicing the Faith" that means the world is our playing field, which means that Christ is training u...

The Monday After | All Beneath the Mulberry Tree

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The root system of the mulberry tree is deep and complicated, not unlike the human heart, the ground beneath our feelings and emotions. It's a great t...

The Monday After | Where is His Victory?

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes we walk too far behind Christ, weighed down by regret. And sometimes we walk too far ahead, worried about the future. But the person in fron...

The Monday After | Beyond the Truman Show: the Catholic Vision of Reality

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So much of this world is man-made that it's a lot like The Truman Show. But Christ comes into our lives, like Sylvia into Truman's, emboldening us, by...

The Monday After | The Necessary Evil of Handing Over the Son

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Treatments like chemotherapy, for example, are in some ways similar to Christ's death on the cross; they are necessary evils; one heals cancer, the ot...

The Monday After | Always First Death

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dealing with God will always mean dying to that part of us that resists seeing things from his perspective.

The Monday After | Paradox or Contradiction

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of a new segment called, "The Monday After," offering a series of reflections following the Sunday Mass.

He Leadeth Me | Chapter 20 | Humanity | Epilogue

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the conclusion of a Lenten reading of Father Walter Ciszek's, He Leadeth Me. One chapter will be posted every other day throughout Lent, recor...