Pause+Pray

The word “Juneteenth” is a combination of the month of June and the 19th, which is the day in 1865 when the Union Army established full authority over the state of Texas.

Life is social but we also need to get away. We need moments each day to pause and be still so that we can hear God’s voice amid the chaos and complexity of our lives.

To follow Jesus is to commit ourselves to justice. This requires inward change more often than we would like and can be a complicated journey.

Share today's prayer with a father who emulates the same characteristics as St. Joseph. A prayerful word of thanks is sometimes the best present.

Scripture tells us that those who seek the Lord “lack no good thing.” (Ps 34:11) But the absolute certainty of such a verse may feel a little strange to our modern ear.

We so often go about our day without giving a thought to the habits we perform throughout them. We slurp our cup of coffee or tea while driving down the road, we inhale a burger on the go without a ...