Now, Make Your Act of Contrition
My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned
My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned
Over the summer my dear friend and roommate put together a gorgeous video about why many Catholic women are returning to the old custom of
It was my last class of my senior year of college, and I listened intently as my professor wrapped up his final lecture. I sat
Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. -Ephesians 5:22 I used to think that being submissive or subordinate meant that you
Under the Influence of Jesus: The Transforming Experience of Encountering Christ by Joe Paprocki (Loyola Press, 168 pages, $15.95) Disclaimer: This book was sent to
Earlier this week, my 7th grade students engaged in a battle of tongue twisters. They exchanged challenges that sought to discover which of them could say
When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly
Easter is coming; fast! I mean the action, not the adjective. It’s a command. Once Easter comes, it seems, we forget about this wonderful act
Life, in all its glory, is pretty messy. Sin skips and trips us through life as we try to be faithful and nothing halts us
We live in a modern world. We are often blinded by distractions and every now and then we need to be reminded of things that
Forgive the (now somewhat dated) reference to the 80s movie, Romancing the Stone. In his latest book, Fr. Dwight Longenecker seeks to romance something even more
Is Pope Francis a saint? God only knows. I’ve come to the conclusion, however, that he has truly dedicated the breadth of his energies to becoming one. Since his appointment
A reflection written in the midst of my first semester of college… Flirting starts based off of an initial attraction: a girl notices a guy,
Dear Father, I thought of you today, and hoped you were doing well. I got to thinking about the role you”ve had in my life,
Who are considered the “young adults” in your community? Are they teenagers? Are they single twenty-somethings? Are they young professionals? Are they young mothers and
My training is in Classics. That kind of nearly obsessive focus on grammar bears some peculiar fruit in my day to day life. For one,
Dear child, I see the good in you. Satan would love nothing more than for you to get lost in your sin and shame. I
Before I left for college, I wrote about how my tendency to control and plan every aspect of my life often hurt more than it
Wait…you want me to be involved? This week was our parish’s Ministry Fair. They have been publicizing this fair for weeks. When we headed over
I have been nerding out since I discovered that archive.org has digitized the 1912 edition of the Decreta Authentica Sacræ Congregationis Rituum, which contains all 4,284
This week, an in-depth interview with Pope Francis was released in Jesuit publications around the world. In the opening question, “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?”,