
When my grandmother Rose burned a pan of cookies, she looked up to heaven and said, “Aren’t I humble enough yet?” She…
When my grandmother Rose burned a pan of cookies, she looked up to heaven and said, “Aren’t I humble enough yet?” She…
Am I the only one who thought that the nightly examination of conscience was supposed to be a list of everything I…
For years I’ve pondered what Psalm 24 means. How do we humans let the king of glory in? How can we who…
I came crashing into the Catholic Church in 1990, two years after reading St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s autobiography, The Story of a…
A friend said, “I love being accountable to a prayer partner for my week. Because I’m kinda braggy: ‘I made it to…
Almsgiving is one of the “pillar” virtues of Lent, along with prayer and fasting. We give alms because Jesus commands us to…
The following words of St. Jude and St. Augustine bring into clear focus why we follow Christ and try every day to…
My guest blogger this week is Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471), who wrote The Imitation of Christ—the most popular spiritual book, they…
Paul always stops me in my tracks at Colossians 1:15-17. My eyes glaze over and I sit dumbfounded in wonder that Jesus…
Almost everyone agrees that becoming more loving is good, but how do we put that into action? That’s what virtue is all about….
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