Daniel P. Horan

What makes a son good is not what he says to his father, but what he does after the fact by working in the fields (Matthew 21:28–31).

Thomas Merton said that what it means to be myself is to be my true self.

Life is change. But it is not antithetical to what came before, it is not a negation of that, or an elimination of it. In some ways, it might be a building upon it.

The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...

If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.

It’s when we do God’s work that our heart finds its true home. It’s when we help feed the hunger of others, share our resources with those in need, and replace our selfishness for the selflessness modeled by Jesus that ...