June 18, 2022 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
This is not a typical celebratory Father’s Day meditation; no Hallmark card will feature such apparently dour reminders to Dads of their limitations, weaknesses, and mortality. But the privileges and challenges of imitating both St. Joseph and the eternal Father of Jesus Christ make fatherhood an awe-inspiring vocation.
June 15, 2022 | Continuum, Publications
Contents Letter from the Headmaster News & Notes Why we call it Commencement by Fr. Stephen Gregg ’01 25 Years of Braveart: Straight from the heart by Bob Greenfield Alumni Gatherings In Memoriam Class Reunions Sports Afterthoughts by Smokey Briggs ’84...
May 23, 2022 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. John Bayer
“Listening at the Dallas Synod” by Fr. John for The Texas Catholic. Plans are well underway for the 2024 Synod — that big meeting to advise the bishop about the spiritual, material and administrative situation of the Dallas Diocese. Essential to its...
May 5, 2022 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
“Mary, mother of every beloved disciple” by Fr. Thomas for Texas Catholic. Mary is never named in the Gospel of John. In the only scenes featuring her, the beloved disciple refers to her simply as “the mother of Jesus.” Those two episodes act as bookends...
April 25, 2022 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. John Bayer
“Faith in Medicine” by Fr. John for The Texas Catholic. Our world needs Christian faith. A book that proved this to me regarding the medical field is Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality by Charles C....
April 7, 2022 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, declared in a book of prose that “the Scriptures constitute the common good of believers, agnostics, and atheists.” For Milosz, whose life was scarred by the Nazi and Communist takeovers of his native land, the moral authority and literary beauty of the Bible was a refuge against the lethal and banal propaganda spewed forth from those godless governments and armies, even though he could not bring himself to believe in God.
