• Went on a mission trip to Jamaica in January through Frassati and served the community of Annotto Bay • Went on two ski trips with friends, to Vermont and the Poconos • Celebrated Carly’s bachelorette, in which we were snowed in and played a lot of board games • Enjoyed dinners with friends •… Read More Highlights of 2022
Spent another year working from home. I went back into the office for just one day in August to make a shipment, but other than that I’ve still been completely remote. Quarantined in January after my dad tested positive for covid. Luckily he had a mild case, and my mom and I never got it.… Read More Highlights of 2021
Escaped the January cold with a trip to Orlando, visiting Disney World and Universal. Went to my first opera, Carmen, and saw The Ferryman on Broadway. Met Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga and heard his incredible story of bringing healing and forgiveness to Rwanda. Went skiing in Colorado for a week in March. Met Audrey Assad! Spent… Read More Highlights of 2019
Originally posted at Frassati Reflections. In today’s Gospel, Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for rigidly observing the letter of the law while completely disregarding the spirit of the law. In their hypocrisy, they carefully keep the traditions that were passed on to them but pay no attention to the true meaning behind those traditions. Jesus points… Read More Frassati Reflection: Tradition
Started off the year with a Notre Dame bowl win over LSU, a snow day, and…an endoscopy to diagnose gastritis. Not the most enjoyable event of the year, but at least I was able to start healing. Got to see Liz’s first ultrasound in January! Celebrated an Eagles Super Bowl win! Went to a family… Read More Highlights of 2018
Started a new job! Saw Billy Joel in concert at Madison Square Garden with my sister Made several visits to the Met Went skiing in the Poconos Celebrated Liz’s engagement and helped her with wedding planning Went on two retreats at Villa Maria Guadalupe Attended Women Speak for Themselves Media Training in Washington, DC, and… Read More Highlights of 2017
Reposted from Mercatornet. After half a decade fighting a government contraception mandate, the University of Notre Dame took advantage of a new exemption policy at the end of October and announced it would end contraceptive coverage in health plans for its staff and students. A week later, to the consternation of others opposing the HHS mandate on religious freedom… Read More Over at Mercatornet: Notre Dame’s contraceptive cave-in
The reason Jesus rebuked Martha was not because she was focused on serving the meal; rather, the problem was that she was trying to earn Jesus’s love through her actions and became caught in the trap of comparison. Her eyes were not on Jesus but on her sister. All too often, we fall into the… Read More Over at FaithND: Martha and Mary
Thomas J. Neal, Neal Obstat Theological Pining, “A harsh and dreadful thing”: Sometimes, he said, it’s heroic to simply honestly acknowledge to myself how messed up my family of origin is; or to speak to my sibling in a civil tone; or speak the words “I forgive you” to my dead uncle for his past crimes… Read More Thought-Provoking Reads, vol. 7
Bill McCormick, S.J., America, “Bannon and Feinstein remind us that anti-Catholic bigotry is a bipartisan problem”: You cannot make this stuff up. Completely unplanned, two figures as different as Steve Bannon and Dianne Feinstein—a Trump-supporting Breitbart writer and a progressive California hero—inadvertently teamed up to remind Catholics that anti-Catholic bigotry is alive and well in both political… Read More Thought-Provoking Reads, vol. 6
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