The Spirit Jesus came into the world – and he now comes into your lives – to free you from everything that could hold you back from friendship with God and friendship with others.Read More
And as America observes its 250th anniversary, pray that it will always be “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Vivat Jesus!Read More
It is because of his humility, both divine and human, that Jesus courageously led the way into the valley of death, riding our humanity like a chariot into the abyss of sin and death, defeating Satan and his minions, not with the force and bluster, but with a sacrificial love, infinite in its goodness and powerful in its...Read More
The truth is that many are coming to the Church to escape ennui – the same old diatribes and insults hurled on social media, the oft-repeated resentments, weariness from having to choose sides, fatigue induced by being measured by “likes” or bullied by “dislikes”, fatigue brought on by the isolation and loneliness endemic in our culture.Read More
As a pastor intent on gathering the flock of God, he put unity and fraternity at the heart of his Order, a unity that flowed from his own union with the heart of Christ, a unity vital for the success of the Church’s mission and the Order’s mission.Read More
A machine may summarize data, imitate conversation or identify patterns hidden within vast oceans of information. It cannot love. It cannot sacrifice. It cannot discern truth in the deepest human sense.Read More
The Spirit works in each of our hearts and in the whole assembly, enabling us to offer to God our work of heart and hand, indeed, our very selves, enabling us thereby to become more like the Christ whom we receive, so that the Father can see and love in us what he sees and...Read More
The Spirit will help you to know how much Jesus loves you, and how to share in that love by participating in Sunday Mass and in going to Confession regularly for the forgiveness of sins.Read More
It turns out that joy is not something we manufacture, something we create. Joy is one of the outcomes, one of the results, one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit.Read More