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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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