Thanksgiving break

When I told friends that I was entering the seminary many wondered what exactly that meant. Some wondered if seminary was at all like “regular college.” While there are some differences, the annual academic schedule is very similar, which means that last week we had Thanksgiving break. Since my parents live in New Jersey, and [...]

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Breakfast Conversation

When I was in grade school, as many young boys do, I would argue with my friends about who would win in a fight. Many times we argued about whether T-Rex or Superman win against each other or if Wolverine or Catwoman would be victorious in a fight. We would go through all of their [...]

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Two Advent Hymns

Advent is my favorite season of the Church year. The sense of expectation and longing for the arrival of Jesus Christ needs to be emphasized. It reminds me of how privileged we are to live in the time of the New Covenant. Generations of people longed for the coming of Christ into the world, (cf. [...]

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NCYC 2009 From a Seminarian’s Perspective

This video is a compilation of Geoff Brooke’s and my videos from NCYC 2009. As both John Rockwell and Geoff have mentioned  in previous posts, this was a particularly inspiring event for a seminarian. I hope this video conveys a little bit of how awesome this experience was for us seminarians.

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Walk the walk

As I previously mentioned, I was really looking forward to attending NCYC this year, during High School I never had the opportunity to attend due to the fact I played football and always had a game Friday night. I was a little worried late last week that my expectations may have been set too high [...]

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Who am I?

Hey, Well my weekend was tiring, exhausting,  painful, long, loud, and well worth it a thousand times fold. In my weakness Christ provided my strength. In my pain, he provided Grace. over 21,000 Catholic high school aged youth were at NCYC, and I was blessed to be able to work at it also. My high [...]

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Studies

Why do we study? In a society driven by the desire for personal achievement, many times we study for the purpose getting good grades. Lately I have been reminded of how disordered this way of thinking is. On Monday I found out that I was going to have three tests within 24 hours. I was [...]

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Spiritual reading

This year at Conception, there has been a change in the schedule and there is now a meditation period every morning for roughly forty minutes in between Office of Readings and Morning Prayer. During this time students are permitted to pray, write in their spiritual journal, or read some form of spiritual reading. I tend [...]

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Snow and homilies

As previously mentioned, earlier today, it snowed for the first time at Conception this year. In the afternoon I was informed that there is a tradition of playing football in the snow in the afternoon of the first snow. I’m new so I can’t verify this tradition, however, I can say that at first I [...]

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SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!

The first snow of the winter season at Conception and it isn’t even officially winter yet it is so beautiful and white and fluffy and I hope everybody can get some.

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