Today, Fr. Kevin Grove, C.S.C., the associate pastor of Christ the King Parish in South Bend, Ind., shares with us about a beautiful prayer for vocations at their parish using a traveling monstrance blessed by the late Pope John Paul II.

Today marks the beginning of the beautiful season of Advent and also a new liturgical year. To help us enter this season well, we are sharing a reflection on today's Scripture readings, taken from the book The Gift of Hope: Advent and Christmas Reflections in the Holy Cross Tradition. It was...

Thanksgiving, perhaps more than any time of the year, is when our minds (and stomachs) turn to thoughts of meals. In our latest post giving us a glimpse into life in Old College, our undergraduate seminary, John Whittaker, shares about their tradition of Sunday meals, including a special one...

In a Thanksgiving Day treat, we are posting from The Cross, Our Only Hope the reflection written by Fr. Pat Neary, C.S.C., for this beautiful day. Enjoy, and have a blessed Thanksgiving!

One of my best friends and mentors in Holy Cross once told me that what attracted him most to our congregation was the variety of our ministries. "I knew I'd be less likely to get bored or slip into an unhealthy rut," he said with his usual matter-of-fact wisdom. Now I'm not a person for whom...

This past weekend, the Office of Vocations hosted an amazing 23 vocations prospects. Nineteen of them attended the annual College Discernment Retreat held at the Holy Cross Center in La Porte, Ind. Running point on the retreat for the Office of Vocations was Fr. Drew Gawrych, C.S.C., the...

Fr. Pat Neary, C.S.C., sent his latest post about his missionary adventures in East Africa. Today's is a real adventure as he shares about the trials - and the graces - of the government's forced demolition of our seminary in Kenya. Please keep him and our seminary community in your prayers.

As educators in the faith, we in Holy Cross certainly live out that charism in the classroom, but as Fr. Ron Raab, C.S.C., shows in his new book The Unsheltered Heart: An Advent At-Home Retreat, much of our education in the faith occurs outside the comfortable confines of classroom walls.

With this second Friday comes our regular post from Fr. Peter Walsh, C.S.C., who is working in Campus Ministry at Yale University. Today he shares with us about the Wednesday soup kitchen at Yale started by a Holy Cross priest 27 years ago. It is chicken soup for the soul not to miss …

Today we have the latest post from Fr. Vince Kuna, C.S.C., who is at our parish in Colorado Springs. Like most of us in Holy Cross, his life and ministry this past month have really been enlivened by Saint André, so in his post today, Fr. Vince shares his homily from the Sunday before the...