How I learned that the best kind of prayer is thanksgiving, the best kind almsgiving is thanksgiving, and the best kind of abstinence is thanksgiving. […]
Some Lenten lessons in belief from Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Mother Teresa, and Flannery O’Connor. […]
Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]
We have no excuse for not knowing who Jesus is, nor of failing to understand the implications of the assertions we make about Him in […]
True knowledge of God can only be had in the midst of a life for which all work is undertaken based on prayer and all […]
Lent is the perfect time, or as Isaiah 49.8 puts it, the “acceptable time,” to begin a journey of Christian difference. […]
This year my imagery of Lent has been shaken up quite unexpectedly from a source one would never associate with such things. […]
While many of us choose to abstain from coffee, sweets, or Facebook for Lent, we can often hear priests tell us in their homilies that rather than giving up something, it is better to do […]
There is a story about my patron and favorite saint, the great female doctor of the Church, St. Teresa of Avila, which centered on her encouraging her fellow Carmelites after they received the Sacrament of […]
Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) – a theologian who came to prominence in the Victorian Age – can help us check the Church’s spiritual pulse in the post-modern twenty-first century, thanks to his prescient sense […]
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