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Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time  Seminarians of the Institute of the Incarnate Word profess final vows at a solemn Mass in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Today’s first reading and Gospel remind us of the great dignity of our vocations as religious called to give up all things in order to serve Christ. In the first reading from Sirach, we heard that “to the penitent God provides a way back.” Every vocation is a “way back to God,” the path by which we return to Him once we forsake the attachments and attractions of the world. Precisely in this we see “how great [is] the mercy of the Lord, his forgiveness of those who return to him!”
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Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time  Dear brothers and sisters, although it’s hard to believe, Lent is almost upon us. This coming Wednesday will be Ash Wednesday, and we’ll have our forty days of preparation for the commemoration of the passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Lent is a time for returning to God, a time to focus on what’s really important, and so today’s readings give us a nice “warm up.” Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Originally preached on the Feast of the Presentation  Fr. Etheridge is greeted by his mother after his ordination in May 2016. A seminarian recently mentioned how difficult it was for Blessed Miguel Pro to accept his sister’s entrance into religious life; he had a quote from the blessed that read, “Heaven must be beautiful, because it costs so much.” Unless we have a sibling or a close relative who is a religious, we don’t really realize how difficult it is to have a family member enter religious life.
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Preached on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 - Chair of St. Peter  Today we celebrate the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, which isn’t simply a celebration of a physical object or of just Saint Peter; it commemorates that “privileged sign of God’s love,” the papacy, and the spiritual authority entrusted to that supreme shepherd to guide the entire people of God.[1] To be united with Peter and His successors is to be united with Christ, and perhaps we have no better example of what this belief might cost than the life of His Eminence Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pinmei, Bishop of Shanghai.
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time  Today’s Gospel recounts the healing of a blind man; in fact, this miracle is only recounted in Mark’s Gospel. There’s a lot of interesting details for us to consider, but one things that strikes us is that this is the only miracle in the Gospels that takes place in stages; in other words, Christ lays His hands on the man, asks if he sees anything, and then lays his hands on him a second time. He doesn’t cure Him in an instant, but over time.
We’re also surprised by just how physical the healing is: Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Mass for Life - Friday, January 27th, 2017  The Religious Family of the Incarnate Word stops in front of the U. S. Supreme Court Building during the March for Life 2017. Every day of our lives, and in a particular way when we come to the March for Life, we’re faced with a very important question, one of the most important questions of all, and that question is: what is the value of human life? What is a life worth? So, let’s consider three recent examples, three instances, where human life has been given a value, a price tag, and see which one is right.
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