The above is the renewal of my rule of life under the Archdiocese of Denver from 26 July 2021 to 30 June 2024.  I blurred out my chancery's seal so as to prevent online hackers from copying it.  But more interesting:  Notice that first date in reference to the life of the Latin Mass world in the Church. Now, some people ask me: Why does a hermit maintain some external apostolates?  Isn't this more the life of a monk-missionary than a hermit?  Yes.  But I give two reasons here: 1) I struggle with insomnia, I may do my several hours of prayer one day at a different time from the [...]

Jews vs. Catholic Basketball Game (10 Years Ago This Weekend) This weekend is the 10th anniversary of the Jews vs. Catholics basketball game that Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm and I started as chaplains of University of Colorado in Boulder. (You can see how young I looked in my first year of my priesthood  in 2011.) Catholic News Agency covered the story 10 years ago in Boulder: Although the idea began as a joke, and still elicits laughter from students, an April 17 “Jews versus Catholics” basketball game has a serious purpose for the priest and the rabbi who organized it as a form of outreach to their communities' non-practicing members. “These [...]

Resurrection Grace Just before my diaconate ordination about 12 years ago, I went with a seminary professor and about 50 older adults to the Holy Land.  I was just a layman and I paid for myself via donors, not the seminary.  My seminary professor wanted nothing to do with me (yes, even back then!) so I ended up wandering the streets of Jerusalem one evening.  (Earlier that week, I had hoped for really cool graces at the location where Jesus was executed, but felt little consolation.) However, that evening of wandering old Jerususalem, I came into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and inside that Church is both the location [...]