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Crushed
In today’s Gospel from Mark 3, we read: Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples.A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea.Hearing what he was doing,a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem,from Idumea, from beyond the Jordan,and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.He told his disciples…
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Forty
I turn forty today. They say, “You’re middle age, Hope you didn’t waste your youth.” I do see years wasted. I see moments missed. I look back on regrets, mistakes, and sins. Yet I see more light than darkness, Dawn breaking on a dark horizon. I see gifts, grace, and virtue. I have hope for…
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Compilation: Revival Blog Posts
Over the last few years, I’ve been blessed to contribute to the National Eucharistic Revival by writing for the blog/newsletter. I thought I would compile all the pieces in one location:
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Pursuing Oblation
I am a novice oblate of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross in Chicago, Illinois. My wife is, too. God willing, we will make our final oblation on Nov. 8, 2026. Benedictine oblates live the monastic way of life insofar as their state in life permits — they are, we might say, “everyday monks.”…
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Silence and Discretion
Recently, I had a bad cough. You know, the type that causes your chest and throat to burn and gives your once-six-pack-abs a good workout? Yes, that kind. The kind of cough that lingers as an evil tickle in the back of your throat. One false word, one false breath will cause it to explode…
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Make Space not Plans
I was doing some late-night reading a few days ago, perusing the latest edition of The Catholic Worker, the bi-monthly newspaper from New York City that still serves as an organ of the movement. A man named Trevor Brannigan contributed an article documenting his time at Peter Maurin Farm, located in Marlboro, NY (50 miles…
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How do you guys do it?
When people find out I have eight children, the most common question I get in response is, “How do you guys do it? How do you raise all those kids?” My most common response is usually, “we don’t do it very well.” And, that is true. Most of the time, we feel like we’re barely…
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Breaking the Silence
Today we commemorate the breaking of the Word’s silence. The Word had freely confined itself to the mysterious quiet of the womb, foreshadowing the willful silencing of the same Word in the tomb. Today is Christmas, when the Word broke its silence not with a word of wisdom or an eloquent soliloquy, but with the…
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No Worldly Ambition
He more or less asked me what I was doing working for four parishes in the middle of nowhere. And, I get it. I have a PhD. I’ve worked for the Archdiocese. I’ve taught at and run theology programs at a university. I suppose I was on a certain trajectory in his mind, probably involving…
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Our Method Is Coffee
Once, when pressed for his catechetical method for bringing individuals into the Church, my friend Lawain McNeil responded: “coffee.” Coffee is his method, and by this he means that the person and understanding the person in charity indicates the best way forward in accompaniment. He does this over coffee. So coffee is the method. For…
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Brad Bursa 