Meet the Mystics: St. Catherine of Siena
May 31, 2023
Three Minutes with God: Meditations on Hope
Will what I do during my lifetime make any difference? Maybe in the present, but what about years from now? Will the good fruit of love and justice I have borne really last? Jesus gave us the answer to that question: Yes! If our life is connected by faith, hope, and love, we will bear “fruit that will last” (John 15:16).
What’s Your Availability to Others?
Reflect It’s easy to get caught up with the frenetic pace of life, to forget that someone in our path today might be hurting quietly, anonymously. Our faith teaches us to be aware not only of God’s grandeur and the …
Lessons on the Journey
The genius of the biblical revelation is that it doesn’t just give us the conclusions; it gives us both the process of getting there and the inner and outer authority to trust that process. To repeat, for the sake of …
Sharing the Word for February 8, 2023
Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time February 8, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17 Genesis now gives us another version of the creation narrative. This second version expresses some of the implications of man being created …
Shock, despair and mourning in Aleppo amid ‘terror’ of the earthquake, local bishops say
(OSV News) — It seemed that 12 years of a bloody war should have been enough tragedy for the people of Aleppo and other Syrian cities. But in the early hours of Feb. 6, a devastating earthquake struck northwestern Syria, …