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Even if everything I see or hear doesn’t result in an actual gift, what a gift in itself it is to learn more about that person. As for the actual gifts, they don’t have to be big or pricey just something that lets the person know that you’re paying attention to him or her.
How can good Catholics respond to people who question our beliefs or openly reject our Catholic faith?
I realize that the Catholic Church teaches that it is permissible to discontinue extraordinary measures when someone is dying. My sister, who was in a nursing home, had heart failure and decided to stop eating. She was cognizant. They were going to start hospice care, but she died before that could happen. What was the right thing to do in this case?
Why is the tabernacle not always on the main altar? Placing it elsewhere seems to show a lack of reverence.
A life event can alter a person’s gift philosophy. It reminds me of the “readiness concept.”
Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, reviews Instant Family, Gosnell: The Trail of America’s Biggest Serial Killer, and Creed II.
It can be agonizing to share what is deepest within you but then be met by apathy or rejection.
Recently I was standing with my kids in the checkout line at the store when my son, Alex, fixed his eyes on a woman a few lines down, dressed in traditional Muslim attire.
When we think of Thérèse of Lisieux, we think of her “Little Way,” the practice of offering up even the most commonplace tasks to God’s glory. But the Little Way came no more easily to its originator than it does to us.
She was just two when, instead of selecting a single item from a doll dressmaking kit as her sister did, Therese grabbed the basket and the remaining contents, saying, “I choose all!”
Surely you have heard of Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval mystic, composer, author, poet, and playwright who, in October 2012, became the thirty-fifth Doctor of the Church—and the fourth female Doctor.
