Walking through the woods in late April, with my eyes strained to spot spring mushrooms, I was...
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Reflections- From Our Archives
At War with Myself- Part 2
Our focus on using Ignatian spirituality is to have personal experiences of Jesus. A spiritual director recently shared this experience with me: Recently, a directee shared with me her experience of awakening with tears...
The Heart of the Matter
My mind sometimes wanders back to losses. Some people make their love a contest that I am destined to lose. Some drink enough alcohol that they cause pain they don’t even remember. People wander off or stomp off. One of...
Deacon Steve Greco
An Experience of God’s Forgiveness
The day of September 15, 2019 will be a day that I will never surely forget throughout my priestly and consecrated life. Today, I would dare say that it was a day so special precisely because it was completely soaked in...
Fr Mario Attard OFM Cap
Regarding Fraternal Correction
Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. (Luke 6:36) However, fraternal correction must be just as difficult. Mind you, fraternal...
To Err is Human, To Forgive Divine
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34) In His final hours, Jesus launches out on the road of forgiveness, clearing the way for us to share and receive forgiveness. Lent is a...
Paul Suski
Our Willingness to Forgive
Matthew 18:35 “So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.” This Gospel passage, which concludes the parable on forgiveness, gives me the goosebumps and makes me...
Forgiveness Through Inner Healing- Part 2
It is important that we build spiritual muscle. One of the critical areas for us is the sacraments. We can’t have the forgiveness we need within our minds unless we are healed through the sacraments. This is especially...
Opening Our Hearts
A woman from Texas named Stacy was driving her two young children and her teenage nephew to visit Disneyland in California. While entering the freeway after a rest stop, her twelve-year-old Oldsmobile began having...
Deacon Donald Cox
Deacon Kurt GodfrydAll Essays
In the Company of à Kempis
My mother, both of her sisters, and their mother all had breast cancer. My Aunt Emma Jean is the only one still living. I have tried to be mindful of my health but have often not done a particularly good job. So, I was...
Things Are Never Quite As They Seem
In 1896 a German immigrant to the United States, a man named Emmanuel Ninnger, paid for his purchases in a grocery store with a $20 bill. The sales clerk counted out the change, but after the customer left, noticed some...
The Saints Teach Us About Mary
“If we had a mother who was a queen, would we not be proud of it? Well, we have a Mother who is Queen of Heaven.” (St. Louis de Montfort) St. John Vianney (1786-1859) wrote many beautiful things about his...
James S. AndersonThe Case Against Evangelism
At one time, evangelism, converting those outside the Church, was our most difficult and potentially rewarding task. For many on fire with the Faith it was the frontline of spiritual warfare and perhaps the most...
Tom Borek
His Destiny is Our Destiny
Humanly speaking, regardless of the image Jesus wanted to project in carrying out the mission the Father had assigned him, we should wonder what must have been his visceral reaction when his closest disciples told him...
Carolyn Humphreys, O.C.D.S.Perfecting the Mundane
I sometimes joke that I ran screaming from my parents’ house at 17. I’m joking, but only just. So, it has been a happy surprise that my children have continued to want to be close to Tom and me even into their 30s. A...
God Does See and Appreciate Our Sacrifices
A woman named Marian was married and the mother of eight children, including an infant son named Jacob. Marian was given a great gift from a close friend: the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land during the...
So It is With Those Who Trust in God
Once there was a local church which decided to undertake an evangelization campaign, in which all its members would try to bring more people to know Jesus. Special pamphlets or tracts were printed, containing...
