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“Then Peter approaching asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.” – Matthew 18:21-22

Almost all of us know this story Jesus teaches us on forgiving our neighbors, and many of us probably abide by this. The issue comes in - what happens on offense 78? Any of us who live in this generation know th...

This is the heartbeat, the driver of my soul, to love at all is to be vulnerable. Many know this line from a larger quote of C.S. Lewis, but I wanted to reflect on this simple phrase especially considering today’s widely argued definition.

What is love? What is vulnerability? How can we participate in the love that we are made for? Without diving to the bottom of the ocean, I will try to wade through the waters into the depth o...

Last May my cousin was diagnosed with cancer. That July I went on a FOCUS mission trip to Fatima and Ireland; and while in Fatima everyone kept talking about how it was a place of spiritual miracles, and so I prayed for Melissa the whole time, and offered up countless Rosary’s, with the upmost faith that the prayers would be heard.  Then, when I returned to the states, I received great news!  Her tumors were shrinking.  I than...