Faith & Life

DO YOU EVER WATCH A movie or read a book and just wonder how the characters can be so blind?…

PARAPHRASING THE TITLE of an English novel by Christopher Monger, in the Transfiguration Gospel (Mt. 17:1-9), Peter, James and John…

WHAT IS ASH Wednesday, and why do we get ashes on our foreheads? For those of us who have grown…

“GOD HAS NOT CALLED me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.” This wisdom from St. Teresa…

TODAY’S GOSPEL (Mt. 4:12- 23), the “calling of the disciples,” is much more than a story of recruitment, not only…

WITH THE FEAST OF the Baptism of the Lord, the Christmas season is now officially over. We’re back to school…

THROUGHOUT ADVENT, WE were reminded that God is Emmanuel, God with us. Yet the mystery of the Incarnation is not…

WHEN YOU HEAR THE announcement “Four more shopping days until Christmas,” what goes through your mind? Panic? Anxiety? Stress? If…

DEC. 14 IS GAUDETE Sunday, which means “Rejoice” Sunday in Latin. There are less than two weeks until Christmas. Jesus is…

“EVERY PERSON CARRIES within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves. What seems to be ‘love at first…