Author: Fr. James Kubicki, S.J.

Fr. James Kubicki, S.J.

Fr. James Kubicki, S.J.

Fr. Jim Kubicki, S.J., a Milwaukee native, entered the Jesuits in 1971 and was ordained in 1983. He has ministered among the Lakota Sioux and served as national director of the Apostleship of Prayer from 2003 to 2017. An acclaimed author and retreat leader, he currently offers talks and spiritual direction while serving at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

The Feast of Pentecost

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Pentecost is a Greek word that refers to the fiftieth day.  It was a festival that God told the Jewish People to celebrate fifty days after Passover when the first fruits of grain were harvested (Exodus 23: 16). Christians celebrate a new Pentecost fifty days after the new Passover, Jesus’s Resurrection.  We have completed fifty […]
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The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

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On May 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three children, ages seven to ten, near an out-of-the-way place in Portugal.  She gave them an important message for the world.   This is God’s usual way.  He chooses the most unlikely people and places.  In the prophet Isaiah we read: “For my thoughts are not […]
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The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker

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Since the late 1800’s, May 1 has been celebrated around the world as “International Workers’ Day.”  Though it began as a day to honor workers and to advocate for an eight-hour workday, it quickly became a day to promote a socialist and communist agenda.  By the end of World War II and the beginning of […]
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Easter Sunday: The Feast of Feasts

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Today is the Feast of feasts.  Without it none of the other feast days in the Church’s calendar make sense.  For, as St. Paul wrote: “If Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching; empty, too, is your faith. … If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the […]
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