COLUMN

PETERSBOAT

Father Rob Father Rob

Resurrection Accounts

I’d like to make available to you here some of the Resurrection Accounts found in the Scriptures. You might like to do some reading about them on your own. In any case, it’s pretty cool to see them laid out together.

Read More
Father Rob Father Rob

Divine Mercy Sunday

The devotion to the Divine Mercy comes from the mystical visions of the Polish Saint, Faustina Kowalska. In 1931, Jesus appeared to her. Then, through a series of apparitions, He spoke with her and taught her.

Read More
Father Rob Father Rob

Spiritual and Religious

People still say it: “I’m spiritual but not religious.” It’s an old expression, but it’s also very modern and still in vogue. It’s used to describe someone whose spiritual life is divorced from organized religion.

Read More
Father Rob Father Rob

No Half Measures

What’s it going to take for us to remain with Christ? To stay with Him. To follow Him all the way to the cross, so as truly to share in His Resurrection?

Read More
Father Rob Father Rob

A Different Game

The Christian is different. The Christian knows that to die is to live. The Christian is literally dying to live.

Read More
Father Rob Father Rob

Uprooted Religion

Imagine your parents gift to you a tree from a nursery. They deliver the tree to your front yard, its roots wrapped in burlap. “Thank you,” you say to them, “how lovely. And look! Its leaves are beginning to bloom! I love it. Thank you.”

Read More
Father Rob Father Rob

Ashes to Ashes

We were formed from the dust, from the earth. But - and this is the most important thing - while God did form us from the dust, He did something more. As He formed us, He also breathed His life into us. He gave us a rational soul, an intelligent spirit. And in that intellect is our reason, our free will, and our conscience, the stuff of God’s own life. And It’s what makes love possible.

Read More
Father Rob Father Rob

Join Me in Reading Cry of the Heart

I remember meeting Monsignor Albacete for the first time. I was in the Minor Seminary in Douglaston, Queens, studying Philosophy. I had only just begun priestly formation, and I had no idea what I was doing. To be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure that I was cut out for the priesthood. I never was an altar boy, for example. In fact, the first time I ever served at the altar during Mass was in the Seminary.

Read More