Let Your Faith Be Your Star
As we are literally wrapped up in the Christmas Season and at the beginning of the New Year, it is easy to become overwhelmed with
As we are literally wrapped up in the Christmas Season and at the beginning of the New Year, it is easy to become overwhelmed with
When my grandmother was young, she and some friends visited a fortune teller at a carnival. The soothsayer foretold that my grandmother, Eva, would have
Two feast days for one saint? In just a few cases, yes. Saints with Two Feast Days We are blessed to be able to show
Part of my daily prayer routine is to write a letter to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Knowing that I can just go to
One of the things I find most spiritually refreshing to do is to go to Adoration as often as possible. Seeing Jesus hidden in the
Of course, I can’t remember being conceived nor growing into a baby in my mother’s womb. Nor for that matter do I remember being baptised
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as
“We’re all called to be great saints. Don’t miss the opportunity!” This powerful message is broadcast via reruns of a well-loved TV series of the
Almost all of us enjoy going into our favorite stores, around holiday times, to enjoy the scenery and items we may purchase each year. Taking
In December of 1964, the Beatles made the UK release of the song that would become their 7th number one hit in the US: “Eight
Though we walk in plastic corridors and find ourselves in ever-further-detached expressions of what we dubiously label civilization, modern people depend in the same ways
Poland has given the Catholic Church some of the greatest Saints of the 20th Century. To name just three, Saint John Paul II or John
Everyone should know that angels exist. But how would you react to meeting an angel who descended to earth like lightning before your very eyes?
After keeping the ritual of waving palm fronds on Palm Sunday to commemorate Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, Christian believers (the practicing, the nominal, and
These glorious forty days of Holy Lent can at times seem onerous. Depending on the rigor with which we assail the world, the flesh, and
Ash Wednesday of 2017 fell on March 1. On March 7, my wife and I were on a plane from Newark, New Jersey to Tel
When we say someone is “seeing red” it’s usually not a good thing. In the Church, however, seeing the color red is actually a wonderful
For those of us who walk on this side of Christ’s coming in the flesh, it can often be hard to place ourselves in the
A fifth century sermon by St. Peter Chrysologus on the Epiphany may hold some surprises for our twenty first century ears: In the mystery of
During of an evening of discussion with fellow Catholic men, one member of our group offered that he struggled to give his days to Lord.
My two favorite parables are The Parable of the Talents (Mt 25:14-30) and The Vineyard Owner and His Workers (Mt 20:1-16). In God’s Will, Our Initiative by
Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath