Posts by Michael Throop

How important promises are, especially as we move through our personal Lenten season.

Lent isn’t a task to be performed alone, in a room, with the lights off. This is a community activity.

World Marriage Day is a special opportunity for married couples to renew their vows, sometimes despite an angry, dark, morose and tearful world.

In difficult, even terrible times, when you and your spouse feel totally alone, maybe abandoned, you are not. You are together in God’s loving embrace. 

Flint Hills National Reserve, not far from Benedictine College, is the perfect place to experience the majesty of creation.

Each morning, we arise and present ourselves to a day filled with responsibilities, duties, routine, expectations … How do we present ourselves to God?

Listen, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to weary men, must you also weary my God? Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall

Is it possible, even hopeful, that in our “want it now” society, that we can be patient, that we can wait for God’s precious gift to us, His Son?

We are in our darkest period of the year … and light springs forth.

What were the shepherds doing on the Second Sunday of Advent?