St. Mary's Basilica
Phoenix, Arizona
Consolation and Desolation
We sat across from each other at the coffee house. He raised his head. He looked into my eyes and began to speak from memory, “My mission is to love when others have failed to love and notice when others have failed to notice….
Call to Action.
My hand were folded in prayer. My knees ached from kneeling. This was my daily ritual after noon Mass. I was once again praying for God’s will to discover my vocation.  Then it happened. I felt an interior voice begin to rise up within me.  A voice…
The Great Sculpture.
Every year I share the following story with my adult Confirmation candidates. A story I learned from Sr. Kieran Sawyer, SSND from Confirming Faith. “Once, just as a sculptor was beginning to work on a new block of marble, he noticed a young boy…