Catholic Priest. Pastor of @OLGDartmouth. Passionate about Church renewal and leadership. Author of Divine Renovation, from a maintenance to a missional parish.
“While I am here on earth let me learn to know you better, so that in heaven I may know you fully; let my love for you grow deeper here, so that there I may love you fully.”
-St. Anselm
“The leaven of our former malice is thrown out, and a new creature is filled and inebriated with the Lord himself. For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive.”
-St. Leo the Great
“By his wounds you were healed. At one time you were straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd, the guardian of your souls.”
-1 Peter 2:24-25
Christ, our hope, has risen. Alleluia! 🙏
On this #EasterSunday, the Church rejoices in the Resurrection of the Lord. From all of us at Divine Renovation, we wish you all a #HappyEaster!
“It is he who endured every kind of suffering in all those who foreshadowed him. In Abel he was slain, in Isaac bound, in Jacob exiled, in Joseph sold, in Moses exposed to die. He was sacrificed in the Passover lamb, persecuted in David, dishonored in the prophets.”
-St. Melito
“Let our souls take the place of the welcoming branches as we join today in the children’s holy song: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the king of Israel.”
-St. Andrew of Crete
“Whenever the divine favor chooses someone to receive a special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfill the task at hand.”
-St. Bernadine of Sienna
“If I am worthy, I am ready also to give up my life, without hesitation and most willingly, for his name. I want to spend myself in that country, even in death, if the Lord should grant me this favor.”
-St. Patrick.
Pray for the Church in Ireland
In the Netherlands this week speaking at a parish renewal conference with 750 leaders. It’s amazing what is happening here. Pray for us. Below is a picture of Divine Renovation’s three keys, but split up.
��So that his cry may not lie concealed in us it remains for us all, each in his own measure, to make known to those around us the mystery of our new life in Christ.”
-St. Gregory the Great
Strange. I thought the unborn were not babies, not human. What a society we live in that can report this story and then advocate for the right to slaughter such children, if I choose. https://t.co/ZdnBUlnrzv