I have been MIA recently, I have given projects and tests that all came due at the same time. Plus, I need to enter all my grades into the computer for progress reports which are due out on Tuesday. A great thing is that school is closed tomorrow. We have a new archbishop of Baltimore [...]

Well here it is…it is much longer than my other posts…feel free to leave some of your thoughts…I hope it doesn’t put you to sleep!!
I am originally from the Boston area and I come from a large Irish Catholic family. I am the second of seven children. My parents worked hard to support us and [...]

I have gotten a few email from some of my faithful readers (btw I find it funny that I have faithful readers who check this blog frequently, even if we never met and perhaps might not meet till heaven.) They wanted me to write a little bit about how I came to become a Franciscan. [...]

It was a long but good day today! I had a full load of classes, a meeting with the vice-principal for my Individual Development Plan for continuing education. I found that sort of humorous because I was destined for success for the meeting and for my year goals. I started the year not knowing anything [...]

The friars from my province gathered at our shrine in Ellicott City Maryland to welcome home one of our brothers. Friar Joachim has been ministering for the order for the last 24 years in Italy, most recently he was the 118th successor to St. Francis. After these years, he has returned home for life and [...]

Today the Franciscan family celebrates the great feast of St. Francis being sealed with the holy stigmata. According to St. Bonaventure, Francis went to pray and fast on Mt. Alverna. While there, he received a vision of a 6-winged seraph. After this encounter he was sealed in an outward way with the marks of Christ [...]

I am writing from Panera’s Bread/Coffee shop. I come here on Saturdays after I go to mass at out Franciscan Parish so that I can do work, mooch a free Wi-Fi connection and drink lots of free coffee!
I am working on my lessons for the upcoming week and trying to come up with study questions [...]

A couple days ago, I gave all my students their first quiz and did I hear it afterwards! The grades were far from stellar, rather on the contrary. I gave my students plenty of warning that as beautiful, good and true the answers “love God” and “do good to people” are they won’t cut it [...]

I had a blessed but busy weekend. I met a new friend on Friday night. He is a Jesuit scholastic that some of my other Jesuit friends (see previous posts) wanted us to meet up because we both recently moved to Baltimore and didn’t know to many other people. It was really nice to [...]

Today was the first “real day.” All of the classes were the regular 63 minutes, instead of the shortened classes for opening mass and summer reading testing. I proctored a class for an absent faculty member and afterwards I had 3 classes of sophomores today. I presented material on Identity. I started off by the [...]