Pause+Pray

Good Friday is the most holy of days: The Veneration of the Cross is stark and sorrowful, yet so full of pure adoration from ordinary people.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asked the disciples to keep watch while he prayed. He came back to find them asleep. “Could you not watch for one hour?”

Having a contrite heart is an invitation to grind down your own ego, which can be painful at times. God welcomes you to participate in the process of humility with him.

Francis taught that in God we are connected to the earth and all created things. In the spiritual life we're called to live attuned to this interdependence.

Difficult experiences are the hardest things for which to be thankful. But sometimes years later, we may see how a gift was hidden there.

In the last part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, as he travels through heaven, Dante comes to realize that it isn’t through any effort on his part. Something else moves him through his journey. And that is love.