We have all experienced it. The priest tells us to “go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life,” and...

I fail and fall short. I mess up time and time again. I sin, confess them, and sin again. And...

Throughout all of our lives, we're called to become more and more like Jesus. And today we hear that Jesus...

Amidst all the talk of the blind leading the blind, hypocrites, wooden beams, and splinters, there is a line of...

Holy and beloved. Those are the words that Saint Paul uses to describe the believers in Colossae in today’s First...

I find the Beatitudes in today's Gospel hard. (See Luke 6:2-26.) Hard to understand, hard to practice. They feel to...

Have you prayed with a child? It’s a sweet and humbling experience. I get to do it nightly with my...

Why haven’t you asked Me to heal this? The Lord prodded my heart as I reflected on the particular physical...

What is the warmest welcome you have ever received? Mine was when I traveled to Hawaii to train youth ministers...

Sometimes I wonder what I will see when I look back on the tapestry of my life. Will I see...

A few years ago, I found myself devastated by the collapse of a relationship that I had seen as the...

A wall in our mudroom features a display of some of our oft-repeated family rules and reminders. One of them...

A couple of months ago, I visited a loved one in her new home. She showed me some new decorations...

Many of us have heard the First Reading from today. It seems to be one of those passages that resonates....

"We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you...

When I first came to a personal relationship with Jesus in my early twenties, I went about it in a...

I stared at the screen, my fingers lingering motionless above the keyboard as hot tears flowed down my cheeks. I...