The summer before my junior year in high school, I took a bicycle trip with some family friends. The goal was to bike all the way around Lake Michigan, starting in Illinois and finishing in Wisconsin. We didn’t make it the entire way around the lake, but we got very close. All in all, it … Continue reading →

I am posting my article from last week here again for this week’s missal. I will continue my series on “discipleship” after the holiday. Blessings. Mark 4:33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but … Continue reading →

Mark 4:33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34 he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples. The reality is that Jesus never made following him easy. To be a disciple in first-century Judaism … Continue reading →