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It’s sometimes easy to go with the flow in society and simply live life in a way that doesn’t gain any unwanted attention. There’s a temptation toward anonymity that’s actually quite dangerous for us, spiritually.
In the developed world many take the availability of food for granted. Yet behind all that food is the sweat from someone’s hard labor.
Do you sometimes feel trapped by your own habits and customs, ways of doing things? Even our prayer and worship can become so repetitive and familiar that it seems like we’re on autopilot.
A stray reminder can lead us to relive a long-ago injury–one received, one given. It’s humbling to recall that we acted or reacted in anger, with ugliness–that we even hold a grudging memory today.
At St. Edmund’s Retreat on Enders Island, on Long Island Sound, the sea-facing Chapel of Our Lady of Assumption is open 24/7. How rare it is, in these current times, to find a church that provides constant refuge.
This author offers us practical ways to make the best of the 40 days of Lent.
While numbers in congregations of women religious are falling in the United States, Catholic sisters from all corners of the country are reimagining how to live out their missions in a shifting cultural landscape.
Sometimes we can only break the bonds of disordered attachments when God leads us to the desert.
Some of the most powerful life lessons are taught through simple interactions or encounters.
St. Francis embraced all journeys of life—and even his own death—with a willing heart.
