Devin O'Donnell

The year 2019-2020 has been what some might call a “doozy.” First it was rolling blackouts in the fall, where PG&E would preemptively cut...

Remember people, "The ending crowns the work." That is how things are judged. Let's finish strong! Here's the agenda for today.

Here is a fitting poem for this week by Gerard Manley Hopkins. May is Mary’s month, and I Muse at that and wonder why : Her feasts follow...

"Because I could not stop for death," Dickinson writes, "he kindly stop for me." Death is such a gentlemen, you know. "The carriage held ...

It is Good Friday and we are in a pandemic. This is a good time to contemplate the role of suffering in the life of the Christian. This i...

I'd like to draw attention to the Church calendar and the fact that we are still in Lent. Like it or not, a kind of Lent has greeted ever...

In this time, it's common to be stressed and anxious over many things. We are being forced to do this differently and to use new technolo...

We pray this almost every day. And yet it says in Matthew that after he was baptized, "he was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wildern...

Two days ago was Ash Wednesday, which marks a day of corporate repentance for sins and the beginning of the penitential season of Lent. T...

Happy Feast Day of St. Valentine! He takes his name from the Latin adjective valens, meaning "strong," "effective, or "influential." Alth...

Why confess your sin? I have tried to answer to this question for our students in several ways. Because it puts us right with God. Becaus...

Remember the Roman cognomen "Paulus"? It means "small." Before Paul's conversion we hear of a proud and zealous man named Saul, which mea...

January 12th was the Feast Day of the Baptism of the Lord. Below is Tintoretto's depiction of Christ's baptism. It's clear that such arti...

Advent reminds us of many things, one of which is that God came to us in the dark. It is a time to consider the primordial darkness befor...

Here's the agenda.

I know we are in the long haul, Fatigue settles upon us all, This stretch that extends like wilderness Cannot discredit Christ's own prom...

The school year usually begins with a bit of a shotgun blast. We rub our eyes from the summer slumber and drag ourselves to the starting ...

"And behold, we looked and saw the ridiculousness that is done under the sun: wind storms threaten but do not come; PG&E says it will cut...

Soon it will be "Michaelmas," which is the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels. This is on September 29th and because of this is a lso ...

Part of classical pedagogy, or just plain good teaching, is to make our assignments count. Make them memorable. Make them be an experienc...