September 5th, 2016 was a brutally hot day. There wasn’t a cloud in sight and absolutely no wind. There were hundreds of thousands of people crammed into a little space and some had been awake since 3:30 that morning. Songs …
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Image taken from Still. It can be a common experience for younger people to be frustrated about “when their life is going to start”. Always feeling like they aren’t quite living the mission that they are made for, discouragement …
Continue readingIt is easy for an exile to grow weary. Traveling and traversing, walking and waiting, hoping and hungering – all orientation, vision and purpose made threadbare. It is here faith starts all over again. It is here that faith shows …
Continue readingSt. John of the Cross, in describing the spiritual life like one advancing up a mountain, says that there are two ways up. One road winds up little by little, having many switchbacks and making many circles around the mountain. …
Continue readingLent has begun. It is a season for changing deeply. Here are some words to encourage that. Please take 30 prayerful minutes to watch this talk by Tim Keller. Then, taking whatever seeds are sown into your heart, pray. May the seeds not …
Continue readingby David Macari (This is a re-post from 2013) As I reflect on the Holy Family’s journey to Bethlehem, they would be nearing the city now. Joseph would be silently relieved that his wife would not undergo the danger of …
Continue readingWe have a strange promise from Scripture: history will end in utter catastrophe. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, …
Continue readingBut what is exact is first of all that the absence of uneasiness… is a serious symptom… We can make a generalization: a soul to which all uneasiness about oneself is foreign is a soul affected with sclerosis. (Gabriel Marcel) …
Continue readingMany things will pass away if and when we get to Heaven. However, our sexuality will remain. We are either a man or a woman forever. It must be pretty darn important, then. Our sexuality is integral to our humanity …
Continue readingSo far, what has the New Evangelization (and all its attendant buzz) really looked like? How has it been rolled out in the broad discussion it has received? Typically, it sounds like this: “We gotta do more stuff!” And that …
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