Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Profoundly Human Saint
Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, PhD
May 9, 2020
Daughter, wife, mother, widow, friend—all of these describe this first American-born saint.
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Saint Christopher: Fact or Fiction?
Christopher Heffron
May 9, 2020
Saint Christopher—patron of travelers—is one of the most endearing for Catholics. His life and story, bordering somewhere between legend and legitimacy, is an exercise in service, grace, and love.
Jesus’ Extraordinary Treatment of Women
Barbara Leonhard, OSF
May 9, 2020
Jesus refuses to see women as inferior or unclean, and even makes them his disciples and reveals himself to them. His is a new model of how to treat women.
Sharing the Word for May 9, 2020
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 9, 2020
Jesus is leading his followers into the deepest truths about God. Step by step he is making them aware of the intimate life of God, and inviting them to share it.
Sharing the Word for May 8, 2020
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 8, 2020
The Kingdom of God is not a place for us to reach. It’s a person. It’s Jesus who offers himself to each of us every day. He is our happiness.
Owning Our Cultural Biases
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 7, 2020
We’re living in a time when the far right and the far left in almost every institution are using the eccentricities and evils of the other end to justify their own extremes.
Sharing the Word for May 7, 2020
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 7, 2020
The disciples’ care-filled service to others is to be the medium through which Jesus extends his ministry to the world. The disciples’ mission is also ours.
Faith and Family for May 10: Last Supper Discourses
Franciscan Media
May 6, 2020
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JN 14:1-12
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.
Sharing the Word for May 6, 2020
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 6, 2020
The words of Psalm 67 pray that God’s salvation may be known among all the nations of the earth–that all the ends of the earth might praise Him and obey Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Patron Saint in Times of Quarantine
John Tuttle
May 5, 2020
At the beginning of the 19th century, New York City was a prosperous urban development. With a population of some 60,000 at the time, it served as a primary center for trade.