Author Archives: Glen Franklin Koontz

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.” — St. Padre Pio. As we enter into the second week of Lent, we are probably experiencing the first failures in our Lenten Rule.Continue reading “MARCH 1, 2026”

“Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.  For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people in many, many countries. *Continue reading “FEBRUARY 28, 2026–SUPPLEMENTAL”

“Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.” — Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Today I write to share some news from my little corner of Northern Virginia. Here in Virginia’s Hunt Country, one would think that we might be isolated from the Leftist shenanigans that plague the more urbanizedContinue reading “FEBRUARY 28, 2026”

“Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.” — Saint Catherine of Genoa. Welcome to the end of the week. You made it! “The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception.” –PresidentContinue reading “FEBRUARY 27, 2026”

“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”  —St. Catherine of Siena. Today I am sharing an article that I found inspiring. It is equally applicable to the beginning of a new year, the Season of Lent, or just a personal time where you are concentrating on your own goals. We live in a worldContinue reading “FEBRUARY 26, 2026”

“Lent is a time of grace, a time for conversion, a time to come home to God.” — St. Maximilian Kolbe. The Department of Homeland Security remains unfunded. Because . . . Democrats. Have you noticed the mainstream media howling, crying, and gnashing their teeth over the cruelty being visited upon poor government employees due toContinue reading “FEBRUARY 25, 2026”

“The purpose of Lent is not to force on us a few formal obligations, but to ‘soften’ our heart so that it may open itself to the realities of the spirit, to experience the hidden ‘ thirst’ for communion with God.” — Saint John Paul II. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JASON MUEHLECK! Jason is an aspiring DallasContinue reading “FEBRUARY 24, 2026”

“If you suffer with Him, you will reign with Him.  If you cry with Him, you will have joy with Him.  If you die with Him on the Cross of tribulation, you will possess the eternal dwelling place in the splendor of the saints.   And your name, written in the Book of Life, will beContinue reading “FEBRUARY 23, 2026”

“Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.” –Thomas a Kempis “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, andContinue reading “FEBRUARY 22, 2026”

“The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort.   You were made for greatness.” — Pope Benedict XVI. Tomorrow is George Washington’s birthday. Mr. Washington is fondly remembered as the “Father of our country”. He is the greatest Virginian, and perhaps, the greatest American. The Observations dedicates this weekend to remembering a manContinue reading “FEBRUARY 21, 2026”