Formation Matters

El Evangelio de las vírgenes prudentes nos muestra el valor de "ser" antes que "actuar". Es una lección muy importante para nuestro mundo.

We live in a world that is so focused on output and production to determine value. Contemplative religious help us to remember that life is not only about production. Being comes before action. Their being in the presence of God comes before any particular actions that they may need to perform to preserve their monastery’s way of life. They take as their model the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is the f...

¿Cómo Jesús quiere que amemos al Padre?

What does Jesus mean when he says this? How are we called to love our Heavenly Father?

Be faithful, true, and tough. Saints Joan of Arc, Thomas More, and Isaac Jogues show us what we need to do if we are going to be saints. Talk given at Guadalupe Radio to the boys and girls at the Family Retreat.

Mt. 23:1-12 How do we overcome our false sense of independence and let go of the bitterness of orphanhood? In the faith, there are no orphans. We all come from the Father, and Jesus knows that we need to remember that. His prohibition to call others “father” is not a quick phrase to give evangelical apologists fodder to attack Catholics for calling priests “father.” We call priests “father” as a s...

Getting married in the Church is a challenge and a mission.

Cómo se hace para cumplir con los mandamientos de Dios? Se tiene que fundar en el amor a Dios sobre todo y luego el amor al prójimo. El celibato es un don y un signo de ese amor.

Questions to Fr Shawn.

Beginning with Romeo and Juliet, followed by the trials of Odysseus, Fr Shawn Aaron, LC establishes the foundations for true intimacy and friendship that we all long for. This talk was given 10.28.2023 at the Newman Center in Pasadena, CA.

Homilía 22 de octubre de 2023

When Jesus tells us to give Caesar what is Caesar's (Mt. 21), what does that mean for our engagement in political life? https://www.fathernicholas.com/post/voting-as-a-christian

Podemos sentir que somos indignos del amor de Cristo. Pero el nos reviste con su traje de bodas. Así nos hace dignos. Mt. 21,1-14

Mt. 21:1-14 The movie The Greatest Showman tells a powerful story of a man who had to overcome tremendous obstacles to take care of his family and do something amazing with his life, beginning a whole new type of circus. And yet, one of the refrains of his life is expressed through the words: “never enough.” For so many of us, these words echo in our minds and hearts as well. We fear that we are “...

Los viñadores rechazaron al dueño. Se habían olvidado de la importancia de conectarse con Dios.

We need to learn to have an ordered love. St. Augustine spoke a lot about this when reflecting on happiness.

Mt. 21,33-43 "Puesto que el amor crece dentro de ti, así crece la belleza. Porque el amor es la belleza del alma". (San Agustín)"Puesto que el amor crece dentro de ti, así crece la belleza. Porque el amor es la belleza del alma". (San Agustín)

Loving What is Right   Mt. 21:33-43 The evil workers in the vineyard show us what happens when love is disordered. We need to learn to love rightly and respond to God's grace in our lives. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” (St. Augustine)

La imagen del hijo mayor en el Evangelio de hoy me llama mucho la atención. Pues siento que soy yo. ¿Qué te está diciendo el Evangelio sobre tu tendencia de justificarte?

We tend to justify ourselves. This leads to a bad attitude in relation to God. We have to overcome this if we are going to be fully happy with God.

God wants to touch our hearts. The names of Zechariah, Elizabeth and John speak to how God wants to deal with us.

We can easily be taken in by a New Age ideology. It is so important to grow in our faith.

Talk at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Baldwin Park for the Sanctitas Young Adult Adoration. What is not the rosary? What is the rosary? 3 things to focus on while praying the rosary.

I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world, you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world. (John 16:33) Do you seek peace? Of course, you do. Jesus knew the deepest longings of the human heart. This is why so much of his preaching goes to the core of our being. He is talking about life and he is talking about us. Jesus knows us better than we know o...

I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me. (Philippians 4:13) How do you face fear? We all have fears that threaten to invade our life.