My Conversation with Fr. Boniface Hicks

My House of Prayer Will Be Called A House Of Prayer For All People

Father Meyer and Chris Stefanick round 2

Eucharistic Miracles

"Call no man father???" a homily on Father's Day

 

Fr. Meyer on the Chris Stefanick Show

 Please watch Fr. Meyer on "The Chris Stefanick Show": https://ondemand.ewtn.com/Home/Play/en/TCR25054

Buy My Friend's new book!

You can purchase the book here: https://www.dynamiccatholic.com/the-stations-of-the-eucharist/STEU.html

My friend, and "Pastor in Solidum" has written a wonderful new book called "The Stations of the Eucharist".  It will draw anyone who reads it into a much deeper appreciation for the Mass, and where the Mass comes from in the Bible.  

I cannot recommend it highly enough!

Pentecost, AI, Pope Leo, the Catholic Church and Science

The Mass in the Book of Hebrews

Knights of Columbus Video about My Journey

 

Good Friday 2026

Priests who were tortured in Communist Prison Camps in Russia for decades were told by their torturers versions of the following “The Coward Jesus Christ only suffered for three hours on the Cross; you have been suffering here for 20 years…give up”

And some of them did give up and renounce their Catholic Faith

And so, on this Good Friday, I would like to look at this question; is there suffering that is worst than Christ’s suffering?

Some people have been sick/infirmed/paralyzed for decades, and may be asking the same question or are hearing the demonic word “Christ didn’t suffer as much as you” whispered into your soul

St. Thomas Aquinas actually takes this question up in his Great Work of Catholicism.

“It would seem that the pain of Christ's Passion was not greater than all other pains. For the sufferer's pain is increased by the sharpness and the duration of the suffering. But some of the martyrs endured sharper and more prolonged pains than Christ, as is seen in St. Lawrence, who was roasted upon a gridiron…Therefore it seems that the pain of the suffering Christ was not the greatest.


St. Thomas later responds to this objection: “This argument follows from only one of the considerations, from the bodily injury, which is the cause of sensitive pain; but the torment of the suffering Christ is much more intensified from other causes."


And what are those other causes?

1) The cause of the interior pain was, first of all, all the sins of the human race

2) He embraced the amount of pain proportionate to the magnitude of the fruit which His suffering produced


And so,

1) Christ’s suffering and death on the Cross is the most painful suffering, and my sins contributed and continue to contribute to that most horrible suffering ever

2) But also, we rejoice in the fruit which his suffering produced, which we will once again begin celebrating tomorrow evening at sundown.

 

Jesus and the Holy Spirit turn us into God

 St. Athanasius famously wrote:

For He (Jesus) was made man that we might be made God (On the Incarnation, Ch. LIV, Pt. III, circa 4th Cent. A.D.).

St. Basil, “The Treatise On the Holy Spirit” cap. 9, 22-23: pg 32, 107-110

“Through the Spirit we become citizens of Heaven, we are admitted to the company of angels, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God.  Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations – we become God.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, Office of Readings for Corpus Christi: “Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods.

St. Augustine, in his Confessions, says that he heard Jesus say: “I am the food of grown men: grow, and you shall eat Me. And you shall not change Me into yourself as bodily food, but into Me you shall be changed”   (7, X).

A Beautiful Video on my Journey

 

G.K. Chesterton on What Protestants THINK are the central tenets of Catholicism

"So much of the Protestant tradition still remains that a great many people suppose that the chief marks of Catholicity are those which stood out as stains in the eyes of the last school of critics.  Romanism is supposed to be made up of Popery and Purgatory and the confessional, with the queerest things thrown in, such as incense and rosaries and the images of saints.

But these were often the things most important to Protestants, not most important to Catholics"

G.K. Chesterton.  "The Well and the Shallows".

Should you Fast on the Sundays of Lent?

 No.

St. Thomas Auinas, in his commentary on Romans 14:5 notes: “There are some days on which it is unlawful to fast.  For Augustine says in his “Letter to Casulanus”: “Whoever thinks that a fast should be decreed on the Lord’s day would not be a small scandal to the Church."

Smash Your Smartphone!

Adolf Hitler was a baptized Catholic

Fernando Mendoza brought the Heisman to my spiritual director Fr. Patrick Hyde!

POWERFUL: Indiana star quarterback Fernando Mendoza on Christmas Eve brought the Heisman Trophy to the local priests at the church in an Amazon box.

“We walked out and there, in an Amazon box, there was the Heisman Trophy”

This kid is truly special 👏🙏pic.twitter.com/2LqF5Thv9n

— MLFootball (@MLFootball) December 31, 2025

Active Catholic Fernando Mendoza on Going to Mass and Confession

 

POWERFUL: Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza on why he took the trophy to the priests & celebrated his accomplishment with them.

“I'm a Catholic, I'm a Catholic man”

“I really give a lot that I have accomplished this season in my life to the Lord”

🙏pic.twitter.com/HNk2q0ie2O https://t.co/byIUZbdpY4

— MLFootball (@MLFootball) January 19, 2026

Our Lady of Guadalupe 2025

 

On April 24, 2007 Mexico City legalized abortion for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.  That same day, as Catholics Gathered in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, the Tilma of Juan Diego, started to glow with an image of a fetus in Mary’s womb.

 

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Pro-Life movement because in 1531, it was the first Church-approved Marian Apparition where our Blessed Mother appeared pregnant (the black band around her waist signified pregnancy in the culture at the time.

 

Approximately 70 MILLION children have been aborted in the United States.  And relatedly, it is estimated that 100 MILLION more children have died through the use of the contraceptive pill, which has as one of its mechanisms reducing a child’s chance of implanting on the mother’s uteran lining.

Even the United States Supreme Court has recognized the link between abortion and contraception when, in 1992 in “Planned Parenthood v. Casey”: "in some critical respects abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception . . . .  for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail."

 

So as Catholics we are leading the charge in a lot of ways against abortion and helping women choose life, but we are not doing nearly as well supporting families who are not using contraception, as no Catholic marriage should be.  I was talking to one of my sisters at Thanksgiving and she said an elderly lady sat down next to her in her pew right before Mass started, and began grilling my sister about how her and her husband could possibly their 4^th child, my sister was grilled on their grocery bills, electricity bills, and lots of other total boundary violations, but the main point is that we, as Catholics, need to be SUPPORTING families who are having children, not doing the horribly sinful things of DISCOURAGING families from having more children.

 

So what are we doing, as a parish, to support families who are having children?  Let’s build and even better and more flourishing culture of life at this parish, helping support families with children, and never discourage a family.  I will end with this: St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta said this: “Saying there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers”.  Amen!