God's Christmas Happiness

We are happy when we come to the solemn midnight at Christmas, full of joy and peace. It's really worth noting that God our Father is also full of joy and peace on…

Christian Living, Faith and Reflection, Ignatian Spirituality, Religious Insights, Spiritual Practices, Prayer, RelationshipsEmilee McHoneDecember 20, 2015Christmas, Fr. Joe Tetlow, God, Jesus, Born, Holy, Father, Angels, Happiness

Inspirations And Other Promptings

The seemingly coincidental encounters Jesus had with many of the people we hear about in Scripture (i.e. Zacchaeus, the woman with the hemorrhage, the blind man, the lepers) were hardly coincidental…

Christian Living, Compassion, Faith and Reflection, Personal Growth, Religious Insights, Spiritual Practices, AdventEmilee McHoneDecember 6, 2015Inspirations, Promptings, Fr Ron Gonzales, Jesus, Zacchaeus, Blind man, Lepers, Mundane, Routine, Spiritual

Waiting, But Not Alone

Everything about Advent points to the future. Here are some thoughts about that. First, getting to the future means waiting. You have to wait. Mary had to wait, and Joseph, too. He had to wait because he's the one who will give the baby His name.

Give Thanks

We 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.

Christian Living, Faith and Reflection, Ignatian Spirituality, Personal Growth, Prayer, Relationships, Spiritual Practices, Serving OthersSamantha McHoneNovember 22, 2015Thanksgiving, give thanks, Holiday, under God, America, Creation, Greatful, God

Persevere in Prayer

In my encounters with the faithful, everyone seems to express a longing for a better relationship with God. Most of them have some kind of difficulty with prayer. Finding time to pray or making prayer time meaningful are common struggles.