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Delivery specialists, sanitation workers, bakers, electricians, nurses, cooks, and carpenters: How often do we thank people we cannot always see but who keep our lives humming?
Are you too busy to be bored? I hope not. It might seem like an odd thing to celebrate, but in our world of nonstop digital interaction and hurried work and family life, boredom is something of a rarity.
As the world around us thaws and blossoms, new truths about God catch our attention in everyday ways. Let your observation of the changes brought by spring point your soul back to the resurrection.
Can we begin the morning in the most gentle way possible? Simply being? Just knowing in the silence that God is already here.
In his 2024 message for Lent, Pope Francis writes, “Lent is a season of grace in which the desert can become once more—in the words of the prophet Hosea—the place of our first love (Hos 2:16–17).”
Strive to be an encouraging friend, with full knowledge that God is in the situation and will make all work in his favor in some way.
Jesus taught us how to pray authentically, and the Lord’s Prayer provides us with a structure to offer our words up to God.
Fratelli Tutti is a social encyclical written by Pope Francis and published in 2020. Its title, meaning “All Brothers” or “Brothers and Sisters All,” is
Sometimes I get angry with God. I used to feel that this was bad, but took comfort from the likes of David (“How long, oh Lord?”), Job, even Jesus (“Why have you forsaken me?”). Is your anger reflected in any way in your relationship with God?
St. Patrick continues to be a popular saint well beyond the Ireland that he so loved. But after 1,500 years, one must wonder what it is about his story that has such longstanding appeal.
