by St Anthony | Apr 10, 2025 | Display On Reflections
We approach Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. I have celebrated this day many times in my life. And each year as it comes along, I remark what a wide range of images and emotions it includes. Perhaps at times it has struck me as even a bit odd in that swing of...
by St Anthony | Apr 3, 2025 | Display On Reflections
Each new generation must take up the struggles and attainmentsof past generations, while setting its sights even higher.This is the path. Goodness, together with love,justice, and solidarity, are not achieved once and for all;they have to be realized each day.Pope...
by St Anthony | Mar 27, 2025 | Display On Reflections
Every year during Lent, I have journeyed closely alongside Jesus through prayer and reflection by focusing on one of the symbols of His physical suffering. One year my Lenten contemplation was on His hands; another year, His nails; another year, His cross. With each...
by St Anthony | Mar 20, 2025 | Display On Reflections
Spring has arrived! A time of year when we are greeted daily with the differing songs from the variety of birds in our yard. We can anticipate the budding on the tree branches, the crocus beginning to poke out of the ground, all while we inhale the smell of rain and...
by St Anthony | Mar 13, 2025 | Display On Reflections
It is now the Christian season of Lent and with it comes the classic question of “What are you giving up for Lent?” Many have reflected on this before and even whether it is better to “give up” something (like chocolate!) or to “proactively do” something (like commit...
by St Anthony | Mar 6, 2025 | Display On Reflections
I always had an image in my head of the desert as hot, dry, sandy, a wasteland almost void of life. Then last May, I made a trip to Arizona. Yes, it was hot and sandy, much different than the green fields and hills of Wisconsin. Yet I found something else I was not...
