Thank you for the prayers and well wishes during my ordination retreat. I was in Binghamton New York for the week and it was wonderful. I met a couple twice a day and discussed, engaged and prayed about a number of topics associated with Diaconal ministry, including the promise of obedience to the b...

Last night, I rearranged and decorated the chapel to get ready for the new liturgical season of Lent. Over the last few days, I burned old palms for ashes, reorganized the altar, chairs and ambo and tried to come up with my own personal penances for Lent! I re-read this last from Cardinal Ratzinger&...

I love but am always drained by these past few days! I attended for the 12th time the Annual Vigil Mass for Life and the Pro-Life March. Each night before the March, there is a giant mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It is one of my favorite masses, it is pace...

Greetings from Hunt Valley, MD! Almost 200 friars from the East Coast have been meeting and pray for last day+. We have been discussing, discussing and more discussing on our Franciscan charism, ministry and future. Last night, the 119th successor of St. Francis, friar Marco Tasca. Friar Marco share...

Last evening, the faculty and staff joined the senior class for the Baccalaureate Liturgy. The mass was held at the beautifully restored Basilica in Baltimore. We were all in academic gard (or habits wit academic hoods) while the seniors donned their tuxes. They looked like a million bucks! Our pres...

Today, after school I participated in the Faculty/Staff versus National Honor Society (NHS) Softball Game. Needless to say, we dominated, well not really we did eek out a win with some superb fielding in the bottom of the 9th snatched victory from the jaws of defeat! I did pretty good 3 hits, flew o...

A month back the freshman class volunteered to wait tables at the school dinner theater performance of Beauty and the Beast. They earned tips which they donated to their class office and FYM. Afterwards, I mentioned to the FYM director a service idea I had. I wanted to collect old soccer cleats and ...

I have never been very good when it comes to numbers, estimating or guessing. A worst nightmare for me would include having to teach Algebra because I always joke that I FINALLY learned to count to 20 when I became a friar and wore sandels everyday. Anyway, after the mass last week I thought I was l...

Edwin O’Brien, the archbishop of Baltimore, visited Curley High School yesterday and presided over liturgy for us! It was so nice to meet the archbishop and that he could join us. Before he came to Baltimore, he was the archbishop of the United States military.    I really liked his homily o...

20 minutes after I posted my last blog about not going to the Papal mass in Washington DC I received a phone call from one of my Franciscan brothers who asked me if I wanted to attend! I was exstatic, but I wasn;t sure if I could miss a day of school. I sent an email asking for a “papal person...