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.

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? […]

Corpus Christi: Celebrating the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

June 19, 2025July 8, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

In the 13th Century a Norbertine nun named Juliana had a recurring dream in which a full moon appeared with a dark line on it. In time Jesus explained to her that the moon represented the Church with its liturgical calendar and the line represented a feast that was missing in the Church’s annual celebrations. […]

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

June 15, 2025June 6, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

Today we are celebrating a great mystery—the Most Holy Trinity. God is one and God is three. Tradition has it that St. Patrick tried to explain this mystery to people by showing them a shamrock, also known as a three-leaf clover. There they could see one clover that was also three. However, such attempts to […]

The Feast of Pentecost

June 8, 2025June 6, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

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 […]

The Ascension: “I am with you always, until the end of the age”

May 29, 2025May 28, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

“Goodbye.” For those who love, “goodbye” might be the hardest word to say. We want to remain with the ones we love. Yet, forty days after His resurrection, Jesus said “goodbye” to the apostles, His Mother Mary, and us. He ascended to His Father in Heaven. At the Last Supper Jesus told the apostles that […]

The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

May 13, 2025May 12, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

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 […]

The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker

May 1, 2025April 29, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

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 […]

“Jesus, I Trust in You”: The Essential Message of Divine Mercy

April 27, 2025April 24, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

Perhaps the first recorded apparition of Jesus after He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven forty days later was to Saul. Jesus met him and blinded him and spoke to him as he traveled to Damascus to find Christians to persecute. But Jesus showed great mercy to this great sinner. As St. Paul […]

Easter Sunday: The Feast of Feasts

April 20, 2025April 16, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

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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