Inspiration
The Inbreaking of the Word: Week 4 of Advent
From Father Jim: “While we celebrate the birth of Christ as this great memorial, as this great celebration, as this great solemnity. We are a people with feet in two worlds, the world to come and the world that is that we live in now. Advent points us towards that always and it does it in such short term basis. That’s why we have to be alert, why we have to be attentive, why the prophets constantly tell us to wake up, wake up, wake up, because that really is the true sign of conversion.”
The Inbreaking of the Word: Week 3 of Advent
Father Jim Sabak, OFM, invites us into the hope of the Advent season and helps us to meditate upon and contemplate this past Sunday’s readings as we carry the Word with us into our weeks. In the spirit of St. ...
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The Inbreaking of the Word: Week 2 of Advent
Father Jim Sabak, OFM, invites us into the hope of the Advent season and helps us to meditate upon and contemplate this past Sunday’s readings as we carry the Word with us into our weeks.
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The Inbreaking of the Word: Week 1 of Advent
Fr. Jim Sabak, OFM, invites us into the hope of the Advent season and helps us to meditate upon and contemplate this past Sunday’s readings as we carry the Word with us into our weeks. In the spirit of St. ...
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Elizabeth of Hungary: Beloved Sister in a Troubled World
May I tell you the story of a woman who was married at 14 and dead at 24? Does that sound like the making of a tragedy? What if I told you she left home and family not once but ...
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All Souls’ Day: The Beauty of Each Life
On my first visit to Rome, I rushed to see St. Peter’s. It was a church I had drawn when I was in third grade after I read This is Rome by Miroslav Šašek. Of all the pictures in that ...
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Being and Making Peace Today