Anyone who has been living the Christian life for a while has their habits and devotions, which are used as aids along the way.
In our diocese of Buffalo, New York, we have just gone through the excruciating pain of the revelation of child sexual abuse and adult affairs
Praying the rosary is a devotional practice by which the faithful meditate on the mysteries of the lives of Jesus and Mary. In purposefully slowing
Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has written us a letter, an Apostolic Exhortation. He wrote it to us to orient us away from the world’s
There is no small amount of discussion and even controversy over the meaning of the Hebrew word Selah. There are those who are firmly in
Living in this fallen world we all desire, deep in our hearts, to help, to heal, to restore what has been lost since leaving Eden.
As a wife and mother, I have several little routines which have become touchstones through the days, weeks and years. They are practices that are
Jesus sent out these twelve instructing them, … “Go … to the lost sheep … As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven
One hundred years ago, the Blessed Mother came to three shepherd children in Portugal in a series of apparitions we call by the name of
I Am a Loss Leader! Way back in the 1980s I was a marketing student. There was a common business term in those days, “loss
Contrary to what I know to be the right thing to do, I have a stubborn tendency to dwell too much in the world, being
In a culture that values what is new over what is old, excitement over routine, style over substance, it is not surprising that instability plagues
We have had a lot of rain here in my hometown this summer. It was a wet spring and it appears it is going to
Summer is here with its invitation to come outdoors, to be in God’s healing and restorative nature. Childhood memories of picnics at state parks or
One of the most common early Church titles of our Lady is “the Valiant Woman.” She is the one we run to in distress, looking
Overwhelmed In their book, “Overwhelmed: How to Quiet the Chaos and Restore Your Sanity,” authors Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory, evangelical Christians, offer readers a
In an age of rapidly increasing technology, mass higher education, and increasing prosperity it would appear that our lives are forever getting better. Our society
During World War II, all of the men, women, and children who were not enlisted in the military knew that they were still an integral
A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting and weeping bitterly: it is Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no
