Meet the Mystics: St. Catherine of Siena
May 31, 2023
Three Minutes with God: The Power of Prayer
We often are deaf to God’s presence, loving inspirations, guidance, tenderness, and mercy because of the noise around us and inside us. Create your own space for silence where you can be alone and quiet today. Let God find you there in the silence.
Saints in the Making
Reflect Do you ever think about the saints and wonder how they could ascend to such spiritual heights? Consider this: You are a saint in the making. Our lives may not be perfect but our quest for holiness never stops. …
Read the Bible with New Eyes
This marvelous anthology of books and letters called the Bible is all for the sake of astonishment. It’s for divine transformation (theosis), not intellectual or “small-self” coziness…. The biblical revelation invites us into a genuinely new experience. Wonderfully enough, human …
Follow Without Reservation
If we want to be disciples of Jesus Christ, following him in complete freedom and without any reservation, the first and most important thing that we must let go of is ourselves.
Sharing the Word for February 7, 2023
Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time February 7, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 1:20-2:4a The account of creation continues. Lastly God creates human beings in his own likeness. Being created in God’s likeness means sharing God’s dominion …
Gregory: World needs African Americans’ ‘strength of character’
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Celebrating a Feb. 5 Mass in honor of Black History Month, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory urged “ordinary people of color” to “vastly improve our world with an understanding of the strength of character that resides …