Author: 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.

All Saints’ Day

November 1, 2025October 30, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

If someone about to have surgery asked you to pray for them, would you? Or would you say to them: “Why are you asking me to pray for you? You can go directly to God. You don’t need me to help you, just ask God for help.” Of course you would never say that to […]

The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

October 7, 2025October 1, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

On October 7, 1571, a great naval battle took place in the Ionian Sea west of Greece. Pope St. Pius V had asked the Christian world to pray the Rosary for its navy’s success against the navy of the Ottoman Empire which was threatening Italy, preventing travel in the Mediterranean Sea, and enslaving kidnapped Christians. […]

The Feast of the Guardian Angels

October 2, 2025September 30, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

When I was in 4th grade, Sister Lydia told us to be sure to make room on the seat of our desks for our Guardian Angels. She was reinforcing the Catholic belief that everyone has a Guardian Angel. Referring to these Angels, the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: “From its beginning until death, human […]

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross

September 15, 2025September 12, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

The feast of the Exaltation of the Cross is followed immediately by the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. We remember how the Blessed Virgin Mary shared intimately in the sufferings of her Son throughout His life but especially when she stood under the cross on which He died. We are called to follow Mary’s […]

The Feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great

September 3, 2025September 2, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

There are not that many popes who have been officially named “great”; only three: Leo I, Gregory I, and Nicholas I, all of whom lived before the 10th century. The second of these was the 63rd successor to St. Peter as Bishop of Rome, and he began his papacy on September 3, 590, and served […]

The Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

August 22, 2025August 20, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

Until 1969, the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Queenship was celebrated on May 31, the end of the month dedicated to her when many groups and parishes honored her with a “May Crowning.” But Pope St. Paul VI moved this celebration to the octave day (the end of eight days after a major feast) of the Solemnity […]

The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

August 15, 2025August 14, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

In the Nicene Creed which we recite today, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holyday of Obligation, we end with the words, “I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.” Christians have been saying those words for seventeen centuries and […]

The Feast of the Transfiguration

August 6, 2025August 5, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

The Church celebrates many feasts that recall important events in the life of Jesus. We have His birth, His Presentation in the Temple, His Baptism in the Jordan River, the Last Supper, and His Crucifixion and Resurection. But there is only one event between His Baptism and the Last Supper that we celebrate with a […]

The Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

July 16, 2025July 14, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, News and Culture

There is a holy place in Israel that rises almost 1,800 feet above sea level. It’s called Mount Carmel, a Hebrew name that means “God’s Garden.” It was there that the Prophet Elijah confronted 450 prophets of the false god Baal; he convincingly demonstrated that there is no God except the True God (see 1 […]

The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

June 29, 2025June 25, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

In some parts of the world the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul is a Holyday of Obligation. In fact, it was one in the United States until 1840. Though we are no longer obligated to go to Mass, this feast is so important that when it falls on a Sunday, it “bumps” the usual […]

The Feast of the Sacred Heart

June 27, 2025June 25, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

From 1673 to 1675 Jesus appeared to a French nun, a member of the Visitation Order that was founded in 1610. We are concluding the 350th anniversary celebrations of those apparitions with the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, a feast that Jesus Himself requested. St. Margaret Mary, to whom Jesus appeared, said […]

The Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist

June 24, 2025June 24, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

Within a month of the feast of the Visitation (May 31), when we celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary’s visit to her kinswoman Elizabeth who was pregnant with John the Baptist, we have a Solemnity celebrating his birth. He is one of only three people whose births are celebrated with a feast day. Why is that? […]

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