How Do You Live Like You’re a Temple of God? Spiritual Fitness With the first Sunday of Advent just over a month ago, the Church b... Read More
How Can You Really Give Thanks at Thanksgiving? Spiritual Fitness O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever. (Psalm 30:13) We... Read More
How Your Life Can Be Transformed Through the Eucharist Spiritual Fitness As I travel around this country speaking in so many parishes and di... Read More
How to Find a Moment of Silence in Your Hectic Life Spiritual Fitness In our society today, we are inundated with so many material things and desires. Read More
Prayers of Perseverance and Partnership – The Novena Spiritual Fitness I want to offer you some reflections on a centuries-old custom in t... Read More
How to Pray to the Holy Spirit Spiritual Fitness Fill the hearts of your faithful. Enkindle in us the fire of your l... Read More
Lent is Over, Here’s How to Focus on Easter Spiritual Fitness Before you read any further, go and get your Bible. First, read John 20: 1-29. If you don’t have a Bible, go out and buy one. Read More
Prayers for the Dead Spiritual Fitness This month is the first full month of the Year of Faith proclaimed ... Read More
Praying the Rosary Spiritual Fitness Since Oct. 7 is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, I want to devo... Read More
A Daily Prayer of Thanksgiving the Angelus Spiritual Fitness Diocese of Lansing, Year of Prayer The Apostle Paul reminds us to ... Read More
As We Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Diocese of Lansing... Spiritual Fitness As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Lansing, and... Read More
How Do We Have Hope? Spiritual Fitness Last month I wrote about the gift of faith: faith to believe that C... Read More
Let the Holy Spirit Radically Change Your Life Spiritual Fitness On the last Sunday of this month, May 27, we celebrate the great fe... Read More
Mercy Abides in All Times of Strife Spiritual Fitness I want to come back to a favorite passage of mine in Scripture as w... Read More
How to Choose God's Way Spiritual Fitness In last month’s issue, I wrote about the mercy of God. Mercy is par... Read More
Why We All Need Mercy Spiritual Fitness So often we associate it with kindness, generosity or going the extra mile. Read More
Too 'Connected' to Connect? Spiritual Fitness Computers, cell phones, iPads, iPods, Facebook, Twitter – all new t... Read More
Is God Telling You 'Enough!?' Spiritual Fitness Recently, I read an article by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago i... Read More
Forget Not Love Spiritual Fitness Well, here we are at the height of the vacation season. Even if you... Read More
Divine Mercy How to Accept God’s Forgiveness Spiritual Fitness On May 1, we celebrated the Feast of Divine Mercy and Pope John Pau... Read More
How Can We Be More Like Mary? Spiritual Fitness It is May – the month of the Blessed Mother and the month in which ... Read More
The Touch of the Master’s Hand Spiritual Fitness When I was about 9 or 10, I was asked to memorize the poem “Touch o... Read More
Don't Let Your Emotions Rule You Spiritual Fitness Our emotions, given us by the Lord, are intended to serve – to serv... Read More
Why Should You Forgive? Spiritual Fitness Why should we forgive each other? Aren’t some things simply unforgi... Read More
If You Want to Be Great You Must Be a Servant Spiritual Fitness James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him,... Read More