Back in the day, the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales ran a summer camp near the head of the Chesapeake Bay along the Elk River near North East, Maryland. This is not far from where centuries before Major General William Howe landed British forces in late August 1777..............…
Running Toward the Horizon
Are we competing with our neighbors or helping them?
Little Deeds
St. Francis de Sales was a gifted spiritual guide. Beginners on the spiritual journey often thought that “bigger was better.” Long vigils, prolonged fasting, harsh disciplines and hair-shirts—these are the kinds of spiritual practices that they thought people who aspired to holiness ought to practice.............…
Leafy falls fell
The Cross and the Christian
Love! Now!
Desire and Duty
Christian Discipleship: Discernment, Decision and Following Jesus
Desire and Duty: Salesian Pillars of the Spiritual Life
Assumption of Mary
Welcome!
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.........…
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........…