It has been a crazy past few months here. I have been facing the usual high school senior dilemmas regarding the “afterlife”, so to speak,
“Things were in God’s plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that – from God’s
You are dust and to dust, you shall return. Each time I hear this phrase at Ash Wednesday, I think of a little prayer that
O Father, Brother, Lord, And God, Spouse of my soul, Forgive my many sins, my crimes. Lave my wriggling, red, whinging soul And wipe away
But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. —Apocalypse 3:16 When Herod heard
God is closer to us than water is to a fish. – St. Catherine of Siena Water is weird. Have you ever had that thought?
There is good reason that St. Francis de Sales is the patron of writers—he really had a way with words. During his lifetime, he wrote
An Anglican friend told me that she does not bother to cultivate deep friendships with non-Christians—although she certainly treats them civilly and shares the Gospel
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.[1] On the face of it, Christ’s words seem obvious: of course we’ll obey Christ because we
Prayer is not worship. Worship is a subset of prayer. Worship, properly speaking, entails sacrifice, a gift of something precious to honour the deity worshipped.
If you are a Star Wars fan, you have likely felt either excitement or apprehension when considering the release of “Rogue One”. This is uncharted
If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to
It is said that the most popular theory for the beginning of time and space is the Big Bang. This is the theory which states
St. Benedict gives us a remarkable example of discipline. His simple motto, Ora et labora—pray and work—is still relevant to our own lives, so many centuries
My small feet stepped across the sidewalk and my blue eyes widened as I took in the sights and sounds of Times Square. I had
One day, a home-schooled Anglo-Australian made a rather ill-informed statement on Asian education to his house mate, despite my presence: “Asians can’t be creative because
But they said to him, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have here.” Then he said, “Bring them here to me,” and he
Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might
“Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had ‘the absolute’ within him. He had been a priest, which is a solemn thing. Man may
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. —G. K. Chesterton When I was little, one of my
This year is the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. I am sure that many of us still recall the Jubilee song of 2000: It’s a time
