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Reflect Because Catholicism is a sacramental, incarnated religion, “stuff” matters—our bodies, our surroundings and landscapes, the physical objects we encounter on a daily basis. All of these can reveal something of God and can be powerful ways to anchor and support ...

Reflect When Jesus tells the apostles to pray in secret, to go into their “inner room” and pray, what does He mean? Is He telling us to go hide in a closet, to create for ourselves a private chapel space with ...

Reflect At the end of time, Paul tells us, Jesus will hand over everything to God, even Himself, so that “God may be all in all” (1 Cor. 15:28). Think about that. All will be in God and God will ...

Sometimes we're discouraged by our lack of faith. We think we're doing something wrong or there is something wrong with us.

When you are wronged, how do you react? Do you stew in anger? How quickly do you forgive? Take a moment to think about how you reacted to recent offenses.

We often complain about what we don’t have, when Jesus points to our resources to make a difference in the world.