Spring a Time of New Beginnings

Look around outside. Everywhere, especially because of the record-setting rains, we see new beginnings. Trees that have struggled over years of dryness are springing with new growth. Plants are growing, and, unfortunately, allergy sufferers are suffering. Newness is what this...

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Happy Easter! We made it! Alleluia!

Through a particularly difficult, but beneficially so (at least for me), Lenten Season, we made it to Easter. Alleluia, alleluia! Lent is difficult. Not only because of our fasting, prayer and almsgiving, but deep down; spiritually – Lent is a...

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By Alejandro Báez, S.J. Today, after, twelfth years of formation as Jesuit and six earlier years as a Scalabrianian seminarian, I feel very blessed to be approved to be ordained transitional deacon and eventually to the priesthood. My understanding of...

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