Fr. Javier has done it again! Here is his third installment!
Why is it that we stay with Don Bosco? Quite simply, Don Bosco leads us to Christ.
We read in the Biographical Memoirs that the boys at the Oratory used to point to Don Bosco and comment: Doesn’t he look like Jesus? There is a direct [...]
Posts Tagged ‘God’
Why We Stay with Don Bosco
Posted in Jesus, tagged Christian, Don Bosco, Eternity, God, Heaven, Jesus, Salesians on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Don Bosco’s Education
Posted in Don Bosco, tagged Don Bosco, Dream, education, God, Learning, Mamma Margaret, seminary, St. John Bosco, Study on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fr. Javier’s second installment of getting to know Don Bosco, enjoy!
Don Bosco´s somewhat scattered sequence of elementary and secondary education can easily be understood when you take into account his origins, he grew up knowing the life of the country as his were a small farming family.
If God had not called him to be a [...]
Jesus’ Overpowering Love
Posted in Jesus, tagged Catholic, Don Bosco, God, Jesus, Lord, Love, Prayer, Routine, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Salesians, Spiritual Life, St. John Bosco on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This month is devoted to focusing on the love of Jesus. As Catholics we focus on Jesus’ Sacred Heart as the fullness of that love.
You can find a good article explaining the love of Jesus and His Sacred Heart here
If we are not careful, I think it is easy for our lives to become [...]
It’s Springtime, Break Out the Weed Killer!
Posted in Spiritual Life, tagged confession, garden, God, Jesus, sin, Spiritual Life, weed killer, weeds on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our spiritual life, our walk towards God is a lot like a garden. We are trying to cultivate some beautiful flowers, trees, fruit, and vegetables but the more we try to grow, the more weeds seem to pop up.
These weeds are our sins and interestingly enough, people approach their “weeds” differently.
Some want to ignore them, [...]
This Ain’t Your Momma’s Spiritual Workout
Posted in Spiritual Life, tagged America, Attitude, Cardinal Martini, Catholic, Church, Diversity, God, Gospel, Humility, Jesus, Lectio Divina, Poor, Risks, Self Mastery, Silence, Spiritual, Spiritual Life, Workout on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini S.J. gave a talk in May 2007 that was highlighted in the May 12 issue of America Magazine. The article is excellent and can be found in its entirety here (scroll down about half way to find it)
Cardinal Martini states that living in the time that we do, a time he [...]
Archbishop Burke…a new Don Bosco
Posted in Discernment, Holy Mother Church, tagged Archbishop Burke, Catholic, Catholic Church, Church, Don Bosco, God, Jesus, priesthood, religious life, Salesians, St. John Bosco, St. Louis, Vocations on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
St. Louis will ordain nine men to the priesthood this Saturday. That is a lot! They have seen a large increase in vocations and many in St. Louis attribute it to their inspiring bishop who is willingly meets the men in formation (seminarians) where they are at. Read the entire article here.
Archbishop Burke, whether he [...]
Throwing Your Life Away, Like Jesus, For Jesus
Posted in Discernment, tagged Calling, Celibacy, Chastity, Church, Discernment, God, God the Father, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joy, Life, Love, marriage, natural, priesthood, religious life, Salesians, Salesians of Don Bosco, Sex, supernatural, Vocation on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every so often I meet people who not only think living a celibate life (remaining single to build up God’s Kingdom) is unnatural, but they almost feel like they have to “save me” from this “terrible” thing I’m walking into by joining the Salesians and studying to be a priest.
Sometimes the conversation goes more or [...]
Heaven Prep: Marriage and Religious Life
Posted in Discernment, tagged God, Heaven, Jesus, Lectio Divina, marriage, Meditation, religious life, Sacrament on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Gospel passage that I chose for meditation (lectio divina) this morning was the one where the Sadducees asked Jesus about the woman who had seven husbands (Her first husband dies so she marries his brother, the brother dies so she marries the next brother and so on) After explaining the situation, their question to [...]
Road Trip to See the Saints
Posted in Holy Mother Church, tagged African-Americans, God, Jesus, Missionary, Missionary Work, Native Americans, Schools, St. Katherine Drexel on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week we are on the road!
Fr. Bill has taken us novices to the Philly area to visit the shrines of three saints: St. Katherine Drexel, St. John Neumann, and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Yesterday we visited St. Katherine’s Shrine and I was moved by her amazing spirit of initiative and openess to grace. St. Katherine’s [...]
Facing Down Pride, Eating the Humble Pie
Posted in Novitiate Life, tagged Challenges, Correction, formation, God, Humility, Jesus, Pride, Salesians, Spiritual on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three or four times a year all the guys in formation (Salesian seminary) receive assessments. These assessments look at how you are doing in your human, spiritual, intellectual and ministerial development.
These are great things, but at times they can be hard to swallow. Within them are listed your strengths and also your challenges, those things [...]
