Old Saint Mary's Cathedral + Chinese Mission

Here's another one of Fr. Terry's blogs. In here he speaks to one of the growing problems in today's world--texting instead of talking. Text Talking Silence is counter cultural to technology. When you are alone with your computer, you are not silent, as in being open to an interior insight. Texting is talking to yourself about what you want type or send to someone else. You are editing the text in your mind, though you are not making any sounds. Silence is not the absen

The Archivist’s Nook: The First Catholic Action Hero Posted on June 2, 2016 by William J. Shepherd June 6, 1875, is the birthday of the widely influential New York City born John Burke, a Catholic University of America (CUA) educated priest (.S.T.B. 1899; S.T.L., 1901) of the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, a religious community known as the Paulists. Burke saw a convergence of both American and Catholic values that inspired his visions of a national church. H

Here s another slice of Fr. Terry mind. This time he talks about his going to the monastery every summer': I came to the monastery again for my thirteenth summer in the Colorado high country. It seems that I have brought with me the theme of "surrender." Whatever plans I have to do this or that, I hope to not make my agenda the center of my summer. I have some likes and preferences, but I know from past monastery experience, that if my agenda becomes central, I will make