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Jesus says that what’s important is not the religious appearance we present but the reality that underlies the appearance. How much of me is real?
During the weeks of Lent, we embrace the sorrowful mystery of Christ’s death, knowing we are always journeying toward rebirth. Who in your life is feeling spring will never come to their hearts again?
Saint Maximilian of Tebessa—not to be confused with Saint Maximilian Kolbe who lived centuries later—refused military service and was martyred as a result.
Loving the person who has harmed us in spite of the harm is precisely what constitutes forgiveness. How forgiving am I?
In each mystery of creation, there is open space. Consider the sacred spaces in your life. Are they open to receive whoever God sends?
Saint Leander of Seville was a Catholic bishop surrounded by Arians for much of his life. He fought hard to restore faith in the divinity of Christ, using the profession of the Nicene Creed as a tool.
Some things are unacceptable, and we need—with the Hebraic prophets—to challenge them. Wherever there is pain and injustice let me be an instrument of peace and justice.
Jesus tells us that we are called to treat others as God does. God gives us the capacity to be generous as he is generous by remaking us in his own image in baptism.
In dark times we sometimes struggle to find words not only to pray but to describe what we are going through to anyone.
A convert from Calvinism, Saint John Ogilvie joined the Jesuits and was ordained to the priesthood. Doing secret ministry in Scotland, John was arrested and tortured for a number of days before being martyred on March 10, 1615.
