When it comes to serious sin that can cut us off from sanctifying grace, we tend to think of the more overt types of sin: the ones that we hear about in the news or the ones that we have had engrained in our minds ever since we set foot in CCD class or youth group....
Pope St. John Paul II’s 100th birthday is May 18, 2020. There are a lot of articles circulating discussing his life and legacy but few tend to mention the most important woman in Karol Wojtyla’s life: his mother, Emilia. One could argue that the most...
One dark night,Fired with love’s urgent longings— Ah, the sheer grace! —I went out unseen,My house being now all stilled.The Dark Night of the Soul. Poem by St. John of the Cross Five centuries ago a little monk was locked in a six foot by ten foot room. For nine...
With Coronavirus, or COVID-19, dominating news cycles, social media, and interpersonal conversations, one would be hard pressed to not have at least an awareness that it is disrupting the day-to-day lives of increasingly more people here in the U.S., even as we hear...
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.” — C.S. Lewis Humility: the hallmark of the saints Humility is that ever elusive hallmark of the saints. Associated with the virtue of temperance, it is the virtue that as soon as...
