Pause+Pray

Whether or not we realize it, everyone we know is struggling with some type of burden in his or her life. It takes courage to face down those challenges.

When we are wronged, offering forgiveness is not often our natural response. Yet God asks us to forgive--not for empty piety, but to help our souls heal.

We must remember that God’s peace and strength for our journey are always in, and only in, the Eternal Now of your present life.

Eremo delle Carceri is a hermitage upon Mount Subasio where Francis and his brothers spent extended periods in prayerful solitude.

On a road trip recently, our car was one of many on the interstate. Countless people breezed past us on their hurried way, and I realized that, though I will never know them, we are connected.

The celebration of All Souls' Day reunites two realities--the living and the dead.