Whenever I have taught the Ten Commandments to youth, I begin by posing the following scenario: How would you feel if you came home from school today and your parents announced that there are no more rules in the family?
Category: Bishop Hying’s Columns
The pivotal experience of Transfiguration
The Second Sunday of Lent presents the pivotal experience of the Transfiguration for our prayerful reflection. Serving as a midpoint in the Gospels, this sacred moment on Mount Tabor is an extraordinary revelation of the identity and glory of Jesus Christ as the Beloved Son of the Father.
Devoting ourselves fully to Lent
This Lent, the Lord wants to lead you into the wilderness of your own heart, to speak His tender love to you, to heal your wounds and forgive your sins, to renew your identity as a beloved child of the Father, and to reinvigorate your sense of mission and vocation.
We are One Body in Christ
The theme for the 2024 Annual Catholic Appeal is We are One Body in Christ, a reference to the writings of St. Paul, who often preached and wrote about our unity in the Lord, flowing from our communion as brothers and sisters in the Church and our participation in the Eucharist.
Celebrating the Presentation of the Lord
The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, always celebrated on February 2, marks the 40th day after Christmas, when Mary and Joseph went up to the Temple in Jerusalem to present the infant Jesus to the Lord, as mandated in the Mosaic Law.
An appreciation for St. Paul
St. Paul is the only holy individual in the entire history of the Church whose conversion to the faith has its own liturgical feast, celebrated every January 25.
Six months ‘Into the Deep’
We have just passed the six-month point since Into the Deep started. I am grateful and pleased for the generous spirit, hard work, and sacrificial generosity exhibited by so many during the initial phase of the implementation of this ambitious strategic plan.
Pray for our priests: Present and future
Every January, I am blessed to lead a retreat for fourth-year deacons from St. Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee. As you read this column, we are on retreat at Joseph and Mary Retreat House in Mundelein, Ill., and I ask for your prayers for these men.
Embracing history and culture
As we enter into a new year of grace, I urge everyone to consciously build up a Catholic culture around you, and watch what the Lord will do!
A Christmas reflection
A Catholic Christmas, with the Mass of the Nativity of Christ, a sincere Confession, joyful prayer, Yuletide hymns, and the liturgical feasts front and center, brings us face to face with the shocking nearness of God and His extraordinary love for each of us.