True service isn't about replacing or feeling enslaved. It's discernment, not imposition. Finding the balance in serving without fostering dependence or feeling trapped is key. When we serve, we find fulfillment using our gifts for others, echoing Jesus' call to serve, not to be served.
Read More3 simple primary colors open the door to many others. It’s not so different in the Spiritual Life.
Read MoreSeveral times recently, elderly people have written or said to me (an elderly people, myself): "I don't know why the Lord is leaving me here."
Read MoreWhen we hesitate to ask God for what we want, we are already not doing what God wants.
Read MoreWe have all been told at various times in our lives to share openly what is on our minds and hearts. Especially when upset or angry, keeping things inside and letting them fester day after day is a temptation to avoid.
Read MoreYou may have heard this definition of "insanity" often credited to Albert Einstein: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result".
Read More"There's gotta be more...I think to myself” What is it that you seek? What are you looking for? When will you know that you've arrived?
Read MoreThink of it this way: gravity holds me down. It holds everyone else down, too. But this is a personal matter: gravity holds me down.
Read MoreFirst Lent, then Easter. Jesus told us: You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy (Jn.16:20). We sorrow at the awful grief that humanity inflicts on itself: genocide in Ukraine, millions of abortions, and little children living hungry and lonely.
Read MoreOne of the truths of our faith is that God relates to each of us uniquely. He speaks to me in a way unique to my understanding and does the same for all of us, wherever we are on our spiritual journey.
Read MoreIn the morning, my computer screen fills with the image of a far-away golden galaxy, swirling with stars. The image makes me feel how tiny I am, a fleck in the cosmos. And that makes me marvel that God should care about me.
Read MoreAs we begin going back to Mass on Sundays, we might remember the practice of the apostles and the earliest disciples. After Jesus was gone and the Holy Spirit came, the first thing they did was go together to the Temple every day and meet in their houses for the breaking of the bread.
Read MoreAlong with faith and love, hope is one of the classic three theological virtues but I think the least known and appreciated. It does, after all, have a focus on the future which necessarily means that it cannot be experienced in the way the other two can be in the present.
Read MoreWe are about to celebrate thanksgiving as a civil holiday. We symbolize in this celebration that we are a nation "under God," and a people gathered from the east and from the west, from the north and the south, and made one nation. Let's make sure we are grateful by checking in on the three crucial steps.
Read More“I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7)
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