February 15, 2022 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
St. Benedict concludes the Prologue of his Rule for monks with an uplifting exhortation: “Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset. But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God’s commandments, our hearts expanding with the inexpressible delight of love.” For Benedict, the monastic life is a school in which the monks, who graduate only at death, never cease learning how to love the Lord. The relentless rigors of work and prayer stretch the heart, pushing it outward and generating an ever-greater capacity to love and be loved.
January 21, 2022 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
Near the end of March 2020, the peoples of virtually all nations were enduring the first of many months of enforced isolation and the specter of sickness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. At that precise moment, Pope Francis organized a worldwide hour of adoration, and offered the suffering faithful a sorely needed word of hope.
November 30, 2021 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
“Remember your dignity as Advent begins” by Fr. Thomas for Texas Catholic. Greek philosophers centuries before Christ acknowledged the immense mystery of our being human. Man, they said, is a microcosm, a condensed universe, containing in himself the vast...
November 12, 2021 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
“The Sabbath Rest is for you, not God” by Fr. Thomas for Texas Catholic. “On the seventh day, God completed the work He had been doing; He rested on the seventh day from all the work He had undertaken. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because...
October 3, 2021 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
. Paul’s description of prayer as striving on behalf of someone else has always intrigued me; the verb form he uses, agonizomenos, implies a fight, engagement in a contest where victory or defeat is at stake.
September 16, 2021 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
The Extraordinary Form of the Mass can offer a beautiful combination of silence and reverent song that conveys a strong sense of divine mystery, especially in such a frenetic and noisy culture as our own.
