An Encouraging Word — The practice of spiritual reading
byAttend to reading. I Timothy 4:13 Spiritual reading is the practice of reading books and articles about spirituality with the purpose of growing in…
Editorials & Commentary
A Time to Speak — Are you called to share your love with the sick?
byBy Father Bryan Lamberson When I pray grace before meals, I include an intercession that those who don’t have God’s blessings in the same measure…
Teaching Our Faith — One, holy, catholic and apostolic church
byThis series of teaching editorials focuses on themes of The Creed, the topic of this season’s Why Catholic? process. In the opening pages of…
Teaching Our Faith — The heart of the Creed
byThis series of teaching editorials focuses on themes of The Creed, the topic of this season’s Why Catholic? process. The heart of the Creed…
An Encouraging Word — Ask God to keep remaking you
byDo not neglect the gift you have. … Be diligent in these matters, be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident…
Hope in the Lord — The slim crescent of the moon
bySt. John the Baptist, pointing to Jesus, said: “I must decrease, and he must increase.” Very vividly the Catholic novelist Flannery O’Connor made the…
Liturgy Matters — On the Profession of Faith
byBy Dr. Judy Bullock The Profession of Faith or Creed is included in the Mass on Sundays in the church year, as well as,…
Time to Speak — Opening My Heart to Life
byBy Mary McClusky “Do you have kids?” my coworker asked as he looked at an old family photo of me surrounded by nieces and…
An Encouraging Word — ‘The pain and power of discipline’
byAt the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to…
Time to Speak — ‘Gravity’s’ religious import
byBy Father Robert Barron (A word of caution here: Those who haven’t seen the film should know that much of the plot is revealed…