Today we join the Church in celebrating and giving thanks to God for the holy life and intercession of our patron saint, St. Josemaria.

Feast day Masses and celebrations are being hosted around the world. To find a celebration near you in the USA, visit our website for details: stjosemaria.org/feast-day.

Basically, times have changed and for the kind of work we do another technology has grown. But, besides AI technology, the agricultural community is having a lot of financial problems too. Causing this are also probably things like politics, tariffs, exports, the price of just about everything has gone up significantly and war.

We’re not only praying about this but also talking to clients and working harder to get work. We’ve been worried but don’t have any answers yet from the work standpoint. However, we’ve grown older, our family members are scattered around the country.

So, change is not foreign to us. We’ve been blessed for a number of times thinking what do we do in our jobs and in our companies when we’ve had to change. I believe our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit have provided.

In the picture is my wife Cindy and two of our pets, Croix and Chiara, after we took them to a long walk and stopped for some lunch. As we look toward full retirement we certainly have more time for other activities, like helping others in our faith.

There is a lot to learn as we want to go as close to God as we can.

There are a lot of references if you are interesting and here are a couple:

The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living
The Jesuits website page: The Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

I all I could think was, “God, all your creation is beautiful.” The clouds didn’t last long but it was one to remember. I should have shot video because they were moving very quick and looked like a river of clouds.

Sometimes we need to just pause and look around, and listen to the wind and nothing else. It is a great way to meditate and grow closer to God. Of course, this can be done anywhere. For me I have a room and chair in my home where I can say daily prayers after which I think to talk to Jesus and ask Him what he wants me to do. I’m lucky to get to go to a weekly Holy Hour in a chapel at St. Mary Catholic Church in Pensacola, FL. There He is in a Monstrance and I say “Your servant is listening.” Sometimes it seems like it has only been a few minutes and yet, it has been an hour.

Here is what the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has to say:

There are as many and varied methods of meditation as there are spiritual masters. Christians owe it to themselves to develop the desire to meditate regularly, lest they come to resemble the three first kinds of soil in the parable of the sower. But a method is only a guide; the important thing is to advance, with the Holy Spirit, along the one way of prayer: Christ Jesus.

Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. . . . Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, as in lectio divina or the rosary. This form of prayerful reflection is of great value, but Christian prayer should go further: to the knowledge of the love of the Lord Jesus, to union with him.

—Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 2707-2708

• Saint Charles of Borromeo
• Saint Albert the Great
• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Saint John Paul II
• Saint Josemaria Escriva
• Venerable Fulton Sheen
• Saint Mother Teresa
• Saint Padre Pio
• Blessed Michael McGivney
• Saint Faustina Kowalska
• Saint Therese of Lisieux
• Saint Carlo Acutis
• Saint Dymphna
• Saint Blaise
• Saint Charbel
• Saint Louis Marie De Montfort
• Saint Teresa of Avila

It has been a while since I posted last. A lot has taken place. It includes work on changing our business by stopping the travel we’ve done for so long and that requires things like websites and web servers that have been changed. We have still been doing work that doesn’t require travel and that’s continuing. But there are other things live some good “old” person pains, etc.

I hope I will have more time to find things on the path to holiness.

You might enjoy a “Christmas Greeting from the Prelate of Opus Dei (2025) – Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz.”

It has been quite a while since I was able to go to Mass at what most people know as the “Old Cathedral of St. Louis.” It’s right next to the St. Louis Arch.

The work I was doing (taking photos, conducting audio interviews) was my next to last time my wife and I are going to travel for work. We announced that in April this year. We can still do some work for our company in our home offices and as of now, that’s the plan. I pray every day that we are making good decisions and what Jesus wants.

I have been dealing with anxiety of the move toward retirement but sitting in the church I found peace. I definitely recommend spending this time to anyone who is suffering in any way.

BTW. I will not have to work on a Sunday anymore. I’ve not liked it but after the end of this year I won’t be traveling for work at all!

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church is served by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) with the approval and blessing of the Most Reverend Anthony Basil Taylor, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter serves in apostolates around the world. The faithful celebration of the traditional Mass and Sacraments are at the center of their charism.

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It is long days of prayer and meditation and that’s what it should be. Our focus is on God and talking to Him and working on our spiritual life. I take lots of notes and leave with a couple of resolutions for the year. I highly recommend this for men and women.

I will share some of my notes on my X.com account for PathToHoliness.