Chaplain’s Conference: Keep Death Daily Before Your Eyes
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart School – High School October 29, 2019 We are coming to the end of October and the beginning of November. October was Respect Life month. We give thanks to God for the gift of life and we prayed for a greater respect for all human life from conception to natural death.…
Chaplain’s Conference: “That in All Things God May Be Glorified” – On Integrity
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart School – High School September 4, 2019 That in all things, God may be glorified. This phrase in the new window in the elementary commons is fitting for a school founded upon the Benedictine heritage. The Rule of St. Benedict was written to govern the life of a community so that…
Chaplain’s Conference – Into the Desert (Lent)
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart School – High School Thursday, February 28, 2019 Pre-Lenten Conference Let us pray. Clothe us, Lord God, with the virtues of the heart of your Son, and set us aflame with his love, that, conformed to his image, we may merit a share in his eternal redemption. Through our Lord Jesus Christ,…
Chaplain’s Conference: Keep Your Heart with All Vigilance, for from It Flow the Springs of Life (Prov 4:23)
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart High School November 26, 2018 This past weekend I had the great privilege of baptizing my niece, Catherine Marie. It was a great day. As I prepared for the celebration I could not help but think of her future. “What will this child be?” “What trials will she face in her…
Chaplain’s Conference: On Detachment, Integrity, and Identity
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart Catholic High School October 3, 2018 Let us pray. Clothe us, Lord God, with the virtues of the Heart of your Son and set us aflame with his love, that, conformed to his image, we may merit a share in eternal redemption. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Sacred Heart…
Opening Chaplain’s Conference: Who Will You Be Tomorrow?
Opening Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart Catholic High School Wednesday, September 5, 2018 Let us pray. God our Father, You call all people to hear your word and be taught by the example of Christ your Son. Bless this new school year. Give holiness and wisdom to our teachers. Give prudence and the blessing of good…
Chaplain’s Conference: Ending Well
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart Catholic High School Monday, May 21, 2018 Here we are: the home stretch. The end is in sight. As we approach the end of the school year, it is important to pause and consider how we will end this school year. The Book of Sirach (11:28) reminds us of this important…
Chaplain’s Conference: If You Wish, You Can Make Me Clean
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart Catholic High School Thursday, February 15, 2018 This past Sunday, the Gospel laid out for us the story of a leper; a leper who ran up to Jesus, knelt down before him, and said “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Leprosy – the word means “to peel off”. Lepers were…
Chaplain’s Conference: The Iron Curtain and Why We Worship
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart Catholic High School Thursday, January 25, 2018 In the years surrounding and following World War II, an Iron Curtain descended across the continent of Europe, dividing the East from the West. Countries to the West of the Iron Curtain enjoyed more freedom, while countries to the East of the Iron Curtain…
Chaplain’s Conference: Keep Death Daily Before Your Eyes
Chaplain’s Conference Sacred Heart Catholic High School November 15, 2017 Focus: Keep Death Daily Before Your Eyes. Function: Repent. Back in September, I was vesting to concelebrate the morning Mass when my phone rang. A man had been brought to the ER. It didn’t look good. I took off my vestments and drove to the hospital. As I entered…
Chaplain’s Conference – At the Beginning
Sacred Heart Catholic School Chaplain’s Conference – High School Thursday, September 7, 2017 Here we are at the beginning of a new school year. Day 3. The nerves are starting to wear off as we settle in. We are figuring out the routine. We are learning the schedule. Students are learning their teachers and teachers…
Piercing the Heart 