John 1:26 describes Jesus as “One standing among you—unknown to you.” A priest asked this week: “How often do we fail to…

First, a story about the photo: Someone found a lost Christmas scarf on the sidewalk and tied it decoratively on a streetlamp….

“In Him we were destined by His will that we might exist for the praise of his glory (Eph 1:12).” The joyful…

A reader’s comment that she was “following the path of Mary” this Advent brought to mind a line from St. Thomas Aquinas’…

My pastor said today that Advent is a time of gratitude “for the gift to come.” “Thank God ahead of time” is…

“Here was a man words cannot describe. He was quite without a preference of his own; he neither feared to die nor…

Some days are just one judgmental thought after another. Which is embarrassing (I’m better than this!) and unnecessary. When my head gets…

Sometimes it takes just a couple of minutes to pry ourselves from our to-do list, take some slow breaths, and re-connect to…

When I was eight months old, my mom became pregnant with my brother. She worried that she wouldn’t have enough love to…

I came crashing into the Catholic Church in 1990, two years after reading The Story of a Soul. Having been blown away…