He made them the vicars of his love. – St. Ambrose of Milan It is a special grace to be able to accept the invitation
It finally seems like the harsh winter is coming to a close. It sure has been a rough one, hasn’t it? All those frigid temperatures
The world stood still as white smoke drifted skyward from the Sistine Chapel, and the deep, joyful toll of St. Peter’s Basilica’s bells filled the
I was privileged to interview Fr. Jonathan Meyer last week. Fr. Meyer was ordained a priest in 2003 for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. After his
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” –
There is a fellow named Bernie Kraus who records nature sounds for films and television. When he began recording nature sounds in 1968, in order
Around the year 1300 in a small mountain village of northwest Spain called O’Cebriero, it was snowing hard on a cold winter’s day. The priest
When I was in the convent often I would reflect on Good Friday because of the pain and suffering that I endured at the hands
In roughly 24 hours, the Sacred Triduum will begin. During these three days, the Church commemorates in a solemn manner the Passion, Death, and Burial
I know everyone has bad days at work, and maybe I should shut my mouth since I’m a teacher and standing one month away from
“Then David came dancing before the Lord with abandon, girt with a linen ephod” (2 Samuel 6:14). To be a fool for the Lord. On
My husband and I recently sold our home after several months of it being on the market. In the process there were a lot of
Answering the call of the Lord to give up everything and to follow Him is not an easy thing to do. The key is to
Imagine if you were to go home tonight and you go to switch on your favorite lamp, but nothing happens. So you replace the light
Whether we call it Eucharistic Adoration or Holy Hour, the time we spend with the Eucharistic Lord in Adoration offers many graces. Often, however, it
Aquinas on pedagogy of children: I just read something very interesting from St. Thomas Aquinas pertaining to the order of teaching children in the matter
My high school batch at St. Paul College of Pasig, a Catholic school for girls here in the Philippines run by the Sisters of St.
The idea for this post came to me last Saturday, the 4th, which was the feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. In the Office of
If anything could prove the existence of a soul, it is the utter emptiness of a corpse. — Mary Doria Russell, Children of God When
This weekend we celebrated the Epiphany! But who were these mysterious Magi who came from the East? Here are some things you may not know
In case you hadn’t noticed, this week was the time of New Year’s resolutions. A tradition in which a person makes a promise to do an act
