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.
Category: Bishop Hying’s Columns
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.
It’s time to rejoice!
The Third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday — Latin for “Let us rejoice.”
God is one with us
The universal phenomenon of carving sacred images manifests the common impulse within human nature to see the divine, to indeed perceive the face of God.
Being thankful
As we once again celebrate Thanksgiving, the holiday invites us to sit back and take stock of the gracious enormity of God’s generosity to us.
Time to de-clutter our souls
I have recently been trying to declutter my life. My office, car, and apartment are filled with a motley collection of papers, knick-knacks, delayed correspondence, unneeded clothing, and varied things that have just piled up over the course of time.
Why I love the Church
The Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran invites us to meditate on the gift, mission, and mystery of the Church Herself and led me to reflect on why I love the Catholic Church so much.
Death is not the end
By embracing our death and lifting it up to the Father, the Lord takes away death’s power and finality.
Take back the world for the Lord!
Would anyone today, whether they are a believer, an agnostic, or an atheist, say that the world is as it should be and that they are satisfied with how our society is going?