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The Best Friday
It was Good Friday circa 1989; god, that seems like a million years ago doesn’t it? Where I sat, well knelt rather, in that world, a...

Thomas Burkett
Apr 19, 20226 min read


Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
My Father, 2018, Oaxaca, Mexico I took a stand recently and closed my Facebook account. Motivated mostly out a sense that Facebook was...

Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 201910 min read


Into the Lion's Den
As I grew further and further away from my seminary studies, having successfully finished my master's degree in divine theology, and...

Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 201911 min read


Musings, it's all passing away
Lately I've been enjoying a lot of reading and studying about space and time. The entire concept, of either and both is mind boggling....

Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 20196 min read


Joyful Sorrow of Celibacy
In the spring of 1993 I stood on the grassy field of our football (soccer) field at the Pontifical North American College. Practicing on...

Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 201910 min read


Escape from the Rock
In the last few years I have blogged about experiences I have had as a young seminarian one of which tell the tale of me praying over the...

Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 20199 min read


Who Shall Weep For Me?
In the summer of 1990 the ringing phone drew me out of sleep. I was working as a parish associate at St. John the Baptist in Longmont,...

Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 20198 min read


In Persona de Christi - Love lost
Those long spring and summer days coming at the end of my living in Rome, my last in there, were the worst days. I was trying during that...

Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 201912 min read


In Persona De Christi
I've wrestled with a own "demon" all of my life. The ever bellowing of his wings around my ears has on many occasions deafened me to the...
Thomas Burkett
Apr 28, 201914 min read
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