Pause+Pray

Reflect Caught in a fierce storm on the Sea of Galilee, the disciples are panic-stricken until they remember that Jesus is in the boat with them. Although I suspect that the storm continued for a while before Jesus calmed the ...

Reflect Reflect on the opening of Psalm 42, “As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you.” What do you picture when you read these lines?  Pray Today I recognize the beauty: the truth that I ...

Reflect In Matthew 13:22, we hear Jesus say, “The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word, and it bears no fruit.” Do I let ...

Reflect St. Maria Goretti’s life was short but her legacy looms over the Church and its people. She forgave her killer before she drew her last breath. Could you be so forgiving? Pray God of martyrs,Maria Goretti only made it ...

Reflect In his beautiful book In the Shelter, Pádraig Ó Tuama speaks of a particular phrase: “Hello to here.” The idea means I am fully present to this here and now, not the past or the future, not fantasies or ...

Reflect We often think of confession as something we ought to do, maybe even need to do. But what if we began to see going to confession as our way of ministering to the priest? Think of the grace the ...