12 Mystical Places We Visit at Mass: #1 – Bethlehem
There are 12 mystical places we visit at mass. How is this possible? A Catholic Church is a holy place. It is a living and breathing house built by humans and s...
Author: Mauro Bruno
Back and Forth Across the Lawn
The man pushed his gas-powered, unassisted drive lawn mower back and forth across the lawn. He muscled the machine forward and back, left and right, in a search...
St. Joseph Shared in the Passion of Jesus
On this Feast of St. Joseph, I’m reminded and awed by the sacrifice and faith of this man of whom we know so little. Yet he stands as the protector of the Churc...
On The Way to Universitatis: Da Bó (Two Cows)
I was walking to Universitatis in a land of peacock stones of the sea and vast luminous green fields, dotted with thatch-roofed cottages. I rounded a hillock an...
The Church will always remain – St. John Bosco
All past persecutors of the Church are now no more, but the Church still lives on. The same fate awaits modern persecutors; they, too, will pass on, but the Chu...
The Time When I Visited the Manger
Once, when I was a younger man, I found myself wandering in a shadowy wood. The wood gave way to hills, the hills to plains. The plains to a path that sought to...
The Curse of the Snowflake: A Fable
There once was a young man who cursed the world with a snowflake. He didn’t intend to curse the world at all; it happened very innocently. It was early in March...
What is a mystic and what does a mystic do?
What does a mystic do? First, we need to know what a mystic is. A mystic would be someone who purposely seeks union with God. Some would describe it as absorpti...
Mustard Seeds I
I don’t have to work for the Sun to rise or for the stars to sparkle. I don’t have to work for my cats to make me laugh, or for my wife’s smile. I don’t have to...
The Saints on Ash Wednesday and Lent
“Why does the Church place ashes on our foreheads today? Why does she remind us of death? Death which is the effect of sin! Why?…To prepare us for Christ’s Pass...