News from the Baltimore Province
By Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | March 7, 2016 | Dear Brothers: Over the past week and a half, the XXV General Chapter officially began in the North American Conference. With representatives from all the North American Conference as well as Michael Brehl, Enrique Lopez, Jeffrey Rolle, and John Vargas, there were 21 members who gathered at San Alfonso Retreat Center […]
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | December 3, 2015 | Dear Brothers: Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. […]
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | November 1, 2015 | Dear Brothers: Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have […]
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | October 1, 2015 | Dear Brothers: “I ask you, please, to pray for me.” If you listened to any of the addresses or homilies given by Pope Francis during his apostolic visit to Cuba and the United States, you had to hear him say this phrase. The visit of Pope Francis to Cuba and […]
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | September 2, 2015 | Dear Brothers: “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” —Socrates Every month seems to have its own rhythm, its own business. We start September with a move from the lazy dog days of August to the hustle and bustle as things pick up around the start of the academic year. […]
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | July 1, 2015 | Dear Brothers: On my desk is a plaque from a good friend of mine that reads: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Gandhi
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | May 1, 2015 | Journeys ended, journeys begun: to go where we have never been, to be beyond our past, moments of lifting up, transcending death, rising in transparent light to the fullness of God’s presence. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
» Read moreBy Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R. | April 1, 2015 | “Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that low’r’d upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” —William Shakespeare, Richard the Third
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