The mystery of the Holy Trinity is the most fundamental of our faith. On it everything else depends and from it everything else derives. Hence the Churchs constant concern to safeguard the revealed ...
Parents and educators give [to children] understanding of this divine mercy by believing in it and practicing it. ... It is this faith which will prevent them from falling again, and, if they fall, ...
The Gospel for Easter Sunday is from St. John's account of Easter morning (John 20:1–9). We are told that Mary Magdalene arrives at the tomb very early in the morning while it is still dark. She has ...
One remarkable account of martyrdom in the early Church is that of two mothers, Saints Perpetua and Felicity. Perpetua was a young woman, twenty-two years of age, of noble birth and well educated, and ...
I am convinced that our most significant response to the challenges of our age will be in the most ordinary practices. I do not say the obvious but the ordinary.
Thérèse Martin certainly deserved canonization, but it's helpful to unwrap the legend a little so that we can gain an insight into the authentic Thérèse. In pious treatises on St Thérèse of Lisieux; ...
It is near impossible to overstate the significance of Easter. It stands out as primary and unique for at least three reasons. 1. While the focused celebration of Easter is for a set time—first an ...
This week, this Holy Week, I feel a calling to be silent, to pray, and to ponder. There is much inspiration for each of these activities in our newsletter this week. For now, I will yield the floor to ...
Every time we suffer a calamity in our spiritual life, we grow alarmed and think we have lost our way. Many people on earth seem disoriented. They are not sure from where they come, why they exist on ...