This is the feast day not only of the unsung heroes who made it to heaven. It is our feast day too! We, no less than they, are called to sainthood. What’s more, that joyful throng in heaven is rooting for us, cheering us onward, and hoping one day to welcome us into their company!Read More

God does not measure your worth by the mistakes you’ve made or by the seat you’ve been assigned by a court. He measures your worth by his love for you. He wants to raise you up, give you a peace that surpasses understanding, and to use your life, here and now, to reflect his light to those around...Read More

The assumption of an office or the bestowal of a promotion must also signal an increase of love for the Lord who died and rose in Jerusalem, and a deepened faith in the God who can bring forth grace from sin, triumph from tragedy, life from death. Surely it means an increase of love for those who dwell in...Read More

With Christ living in us and among us, we can no longer live for ourselves but we live for others. When we give of ourselves as God has given to us, we give him glory.Read More

For the Eucharist we now celebrate is a foretaste of the banquet of heaven, where the glorified Christ, the Lamb once slain, sitting at God’s right hand, is praised, adored, and glorified by angels and saints as his marriage to a redeemed humanity is consummated in unspeakable joy.Read More

Salvation remains a free gift and is not earned by anything we do. Yet, once the Spirit penetrates our depths (to return to the Gospel), the house swept clean is no longer empty but filled with the strength needed to lead a life of free of sin and full of virtue, in a word, a life where the holiness...Read More

Do not be afraid to let your children hear God’s call. Even amid uncertainty—or perhaps precisely in the midst of it—the children who arrive today frightened may tomorrow become the priests, religious women and men, and fathers and mothers who sustain the faith of this country.Read More

The future of evangelization will depend less upon our ability to defend ourselves and more upon our willingness to be transparent, humble and faithful. Humility does not weaken the Church – humility purifies her witness.Read More