Fr. John Britto, C.S.C., was ordained a priest last year on April 30 together with Fr. Paul Ybarra, C.S.C. As we prepare for this year's ordination...
Holy Week: Among the Living Forever
When I was first ordained a priest, I was assigned to a parish with a large grade school. One day early on in my time there, I was celebrating a...
Holy Week: Waiting in Hope
Today is Good Friday. Jesus' body has been taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb. The tomb has been sealed, and now we wait. There's not...
Holy Week: Eucharistic Service
My brothers and sisters in Christ, we gather here in the Basilica this evening to begin the celebration of the Sacred Triduum. Our observance of...
Studying the Source and Summit
Benedictine influence upon liturgy as both prayer and an academic subject spans centuries. It is also found in my own short life. In grade school...
Christ in the Vet
As we begin Holy week, many reflections come to heart and mind. We are blessed at André House to have some powerful Holy Week activities and...
Holy Week: Accompanying Jesus to Jerusalem
Today is the day of great expectations. Jesus, thought by the masses to be the long-awaited Messiah, enters Jerusalem triumphantly. He is given an...
Unannounced, yet welcomed
In the following post, David Mahin, a senior at Siegfried Hall at the University of Notre Dame, recounts his experience of finding hospitality at...
Attending to the Sick
One of the lessons I learned early in my priesthood was the importance of visiting the sick and homebound of the parish. Twenty-one of my 27 years...