Faith & Life

DO YOU HAVE A PEARL of great price in your life? John Steinbeck’s allegorical novella, “The Pearl,” infuses the “pearl…

ACCORDING TO THE dictionary, conversion is the “act, process or instance of changing from one form, state or purpose to…

TODAY IS THE FEAST day of two of my new favorite saints: Louis and Zélie Martin. You may not have…

SOME 250 YEARS AGO, two major events unfolded on opposite sides of what is now the United States. On the…

TODAY’S GOSPEL (Mt. 10:37-42) follows Jesus’ startling statement: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the…

WE WISH A HAPPY Father’s Day to all fathers and father figures. Many countries now observe Father’s Day, the celebration…

WHY DO WE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE in silence? Why do we often choose noise and distraction over silence? Are we afraid…

“LORD, I AM NOT worthy that you should enter under my roof, but say the word and my soul shall…

MANY OF US HAVE suffered in our lives and sometimes we carry physical and emotional scars from those wounds- a…

JOHN DENVER’S SONG “Country Roads” was popular over 50 years ago, so perhaps by now few remember the beginning words…