Tag: Reconciliation

The Saints and Mercy

Many of the saints we celebrate and honor today began their lives as very secular people.ย They were headed in one direction in life when something happened that led toย metanoiaย or change of heart, repentance of their sins and an experience of Godโ€™s...

Forgiveness Through Inner Healing- Part 2

It is important that we build spiritual muscle.ย One of the critical areas for us is the sacraments.ย We canโ€™t have the forgiveness we need within our minds unless we are healed through the sacraments.ย This is especially true for the Sacrament of...

Journeying Lent with the Fathers

“This year the Lord grants us, once again, a favourable time to prepare to celebrate with renewed hearts the great mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus, the cornerstone of our personal and communal Christian life. We must continually...

Our Eternal Destiny

Once there was a priestโ€”weโ€™ll call him Father Smithโ€”who heard that the neighboring Catholic parish had a newly-painted mural dedicated to the souls in purgatory; the pastor there commissioned it as a way of reminding his parishioners to pray on a...

Mercy is God’s First Name

A young woman with an attitude, whom weโ€™ll call Nadine, rebelled against her parentsโ€™ religious beliefs and practices, saying, โ€œIโ€™ve had it with your God.  I donโ€™t need Him, or youโ€”so Iโ€™m leaving.โ€  Nadine left home and went off to the big...

Only Then

Every year since 9/11/2001, people have gathered at Ground Zero, in front of the Pentagon and in a remote area of Pennsylvania for somber and dramatic remembrances of their personal loss. A heartrending, personal loss brings them together. The more...

Memories of Sin

In theย Litany of Humility taught to me by the Miles Christi order, I have always seen a paradox in asking to be granted a โ€œcontinuous memory of my sins.โ€ย Iโ€™ve read commentaries on Ignatian spirituality that take various sides on this theme...