Lent is a very trying time of penance and sacrifice, remembering our deaths and the death of Christ, and preparing ourselves to receive everlasting life. It’s easy to feel discouraged and downtrodden or to be so overwhelmed that you don’t even know where...
Two years ago, Sister Miriam James from the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity spent the entire Super Bowl 50 doing play-by-play tweets with her fellow sister, Sister Mary. “We started it a couple of years ago just for fun, and then it grew from there,” she...
Every now and then (read, all the time) the Church does something extraordinary. Fulfilling the mission of to “Go and make disciples of all nations” set forth by Jesus Christ requires bold action, courage, innovation, and ultimately, complete trust of the Holy Spirit....
Have you ever found yourself at Mass, listening the the Eucharist prayer when the priest starts saying the names of saints? You know some of them – Saint Joseph, Saint Peter, Saint Paul. But then there are some who you’ve never heard of – Cyprian?...
In Benjamin Wiker’s book Saints vs Scoundrels: Debating Life’s Greatest Questions, he proposes what might happen should some of the greatest saints meet up with some of the greatest scoundrels and then postulates how the saint may have changed the...
“The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office…is the daily prayer of the Church, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. The Hours are a meditative dialogue on the mystery of Christ, using scripture and...
