Pause+Pray

At a restaurant recently, I looked around at all the people seated nearby. And though I will never know them—or even see them again—I thought about how we are sharing a sacred moment.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen used the term viriditas to describe the energy of the sun transformed by plants into growth and life. While we can observe it in gardens and forests, Hildegard believed we could also cultivate it in our ...

Grief is hardly a pleasant or welcome emotional state, and yet, if we’re blessed to live long enough, all of us have to face it at different times in our lives.

Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel affirms that radical amazement is the heart of religious experience. Life is amazing.

Blessed Onesimus was a runaway slave in the New Testament. Despite this distressing situation, he ultimately became known as a holy one in the early Church. It was St. Paul who gave Onesimus guidance and encouragement.

The promise of Easter doesn’t end on Easter Sunday. The promise of life is a constant that is shared with us every day, through the ways in which our faith interacts with our daily lives. Saint John Paul II reminds ...