• JustLove,  Lent

    “The House that Rob Built” and the Importance of Fasting

    On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about the Golden Globes and the release of a documentary on the life of College Woman’s Basketball Coach Rob Selvig. Coach Rob Selvig is the Retired Coach of the University of Montana’s “Lady Griz” Women’s Basketball Team, as well as the title subject of the recently released documentary film “The House that Rob Built” about the 38 winning years he spent coaching young women at Missoula, Montana University. Coach Selvig talks with us about his experiences coaching, and what it is like having a documentary film made about his life and career. Megan Harrington is Senior Producer for the…

  • Commentary

    My Guide to Unwimpy Fasting

      This fasting thing is complicated. If you doubt, check out the first of today’s reading. It’s gotten a bad name in many religious circles and yet it’s made a real surge in some secular ones – go figure. In Catholic circles, in my less than humble opinion, we’ve become whooshes on fasting (I include within fasting what is technically abstinence). Here’s the “rigorous” demand placed on Catholics for Lent: 1) Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent no meat. Big deal – only cheese pizza, shrimp, chocolate cake and sushi on 6 of the 40 days. Don’t get me started on those who ask and those who grant…

  • Commentary

    Ash Wednesday – 2014: Time for a 3D Spiritual Selfie: “Purging, Pondering & Paying it Forward”

    Lent: 40 days to take a 3D spiritual selfie  Why “3D?” Because that’s who we are:   we’re not hermits living in isolation. We live in the world with others and we are made in the image and likeness of God. A good spiritual selfie can’t crop out the other people or God!! How do we do it? 3 ways: Purging –   kinda like fasting Pondering – kinda like prayer Paying it forward – kinda like charity Purging/Fasting gets us to focus on our own needs and wants.  It enables us to realize what is necessary and what we have come to depend on – even if not so necessary. …