“Never miss an opportunity to do good. If you neglect an opportunity for doing good in the hope that something better will turn up, you will often lose the first and fail to find the second.”..........…
Desire and Duty
Christian Discipleship: Discernment, Decision and Following Jesus
Desire and Duty: Salesian Pillars of the Spiritual Life
Assumption of Mary
Welcome!
Live Jesus!
For two weeks, I attended the 20th General Chapter of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales held in Annecy, France, where St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal founded the Order of the Visitation Order of Holy Mary and from which stems their precious legacy to today’s world: Salesian Spirituality......…
12th Superior General of the Congregation
Thirty-five delegates chose the 12th Superior General of the Congregation, Father Barry Strong of the Wilmington-Philadelphia Province. His election is a great honor for our Province. Three General Councilors were also elected. They come from Benin in Western Africa, Europe and India. The new Superior General will choose a fourth Councilor.
Prayer Matters
Live Jesus
Have No Fear
A Note from the Provincial
During the week of June 18, we Oblates of the Wilmington-Philadelphia Province met at De Sales University for the 2018 Convocation/Chapter. On Tuesday of that week I was elected Provincial. I am both honored and humbled. I am deeply grateful to my Oblate brothers for the confidence they have placed in me.........…
Live Jesus 2018 Thank You & Video
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
Fans of the hit comedy, M*A*S*H, which aired for 11 seasons and ended in 1983, may recall the title of the final two-hour episode: Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen. I use this expression not to evoke images of concluding a war, as in the television show that chronicled the human side of the Korean Conflict........…
The Air We Breathe
Traffic Spirituality
The Catholic School Difference
Feast of the Visitation of Mary
The Empty Locker
As our senior high school students prepare for their upcoming graduation, their thoughts and memories may begin to turn to the many spaces which defined their experience of high school: The classrooms where they aced tests, debated with teachers, and occasionally took a discreet afternoon nap......…
The Spirit Within
This famous prayer of St. Augustine illustrates well the place of the Spirit in each disciple: within the person. Frequently, religious art and imagery depict the Holy Spirit coming to believers from the outside. It is our belief that the Spirit of the living God is placed within us at our baptism and remains with us for the rest of our lives......…