Author Annie Dillard has a popular quote: “We catch grace like a person filling a tin cup at a waterfall.” That quote intrigued and troubled me. I stuck it on my bulletin board, next to pictures of my kids, prayers for the canonization of Boys’ Town founder Father Edward Flanagan and a picture of me with Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J. My bulletin board, in other words, holds for me a variety of reminders of grace.
In rereading and reflecting on Evelyn Underhill’s wonderful book, “The Spiritual Life” (Morehouse, 1937, pp. 128), I have been moved to try to think as deeply and as clearly as I can about the relationship between God and the person in grace. Writing this series of columns related to Underhill’s book has been a labor of joy for me.
Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village, earned two notable high school basketball honors by the New York Daily News. Senior center on the boys’ squad Adonis Delarosa was named the Queens Boys’ High School Player of the Year. The 6-foot 11-inch big man averaged 12 pts. and 12 rebounds this past season, and he’ll go […]
The Ashton family of Woodside may have lost a beloved family member in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but they’ve turned a tragic event into a means of helping others for the past 12 years through a basketball tournament.
One of the striking things about the Easter and post-Easter narratives in the New Testament is that they are largely about incomprehension: In the canonical Gospels, the early Church admitted that it took some time for the first Christian believers to understand what had happened in the Resurrection and how what had happened changed everything.
Dear Dr. Garner, Last week, I had the worst pain of my life. While I am a man and have never been pregnant, the feeling I had is what I imagine my wife felt during the delivery of our daughter.
The Mass of the Neophytes is an annual gathering with the bishop of all the newly baptized and confirmed Catholics who joined the Church at Easter. It gives the bishop another chance to stay in touch and for the people an opportunity to experience the unity of the Church.
During the Bridge to Life dinner-dance last Sunday afternoon, I had an opportunity to chat with many pro-lifers who were concerned about the way that Catholics vote.
On May 1, we celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, and on May 13, (the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima) we celebrate the Rededication and Consecration of the Altar of the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph.
April 27, 2014 was a glorious day in the city of Rome. Two great popes, John XXIII and John Paul II, were canonized as saints of our Church. The priests of the Diocese of Brooklyn were well represented in Piazza San Pietro on that day.
