
Cultivate Simplicity
What gets the most attention in your daily routine? Do you make time for prayer or service each day?
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What gets the most attention in your daily routine? Do you make time for prayer or service each day?

We can all think of people who have made a significant difference in the major decisions and directions of our lives.

Children have the unique ability to read “energy” and the present moment in a way that we as adults sometimes miss out on because we are stuck in our heads or agendas.

When you hug a friend, make eye contact with a stranger, put a child on your lap, or caress a lover, you are opening yourself to allow God to communicate to another person through your body.

Q: The feast of Saint Charles Lwanga and companion martyrs (June 3) recently raised a question for me. On July 17, 1794, 16 Carmelite nuns were guillotined in Compiègne, France, for their faith. As a secular Carmelite, I have always considered them a beacon of love and uncompromising faith. Doesn’t the fact that they were martyred for their faith automatically make them saints? Why would any miracles be needed?

Joy sees the world as God intended; it is a reaction to all God is doing in our lives now and in the future.

Over a century ago, Mark Twain created the character Huckleberry Finn, a poor orphan who had been blessed (or cursed) with an innate sense of right and wrong, which was often in conflict with the accepted norms of his day.

When will St. Joseph receive from Catholics the respect that he clearly deserves?

Because motherhood requires women to offer so much of their own spirits, it can lead to feeling depleted.

Pope Francis summarized the importance of Sacred Heart devotion to several saints and the Jesuits, in general.