1. Participation in the divine To innovate is to participate in the creative act and process of God. All creativity, all innovation, has God at its source. At the very beginning in the garden, Adam was asked to tend to the garden. It was not a consequence of the fall,...
The Old Testament Mass reading from Hosea chapter 2 is a powerful reading and some background is in order and shows how we are pursued by the Lord. In chapter 1, Hosea is told to marry Gomer who is described as a promiscuous woman. Hosea does so and they are blessed...
Pope St. Pius X was an influential successor of St. Peter at the turn of the 20th century. Born Giuseppe Mechiorre Sarto in 1835, he lived near Venice, Italy. Coming from a poor family of ten children, Giuseppe acquired an education aided through his keen intellect...
Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a saint who ultimately sacrificed everything during a time of great death and sin. Try to use that line to entice a middle school or teen to read more about his life? Might be tough until you show them this great graphic novel about the life...
If you’ve ever talked to anyone, especially kids, about heaven, oftentimes the talk of what people wear in heaven will come up. While we don’t know if we will be naked as we were in the Garden of Eden, or wear white robes as often depicted in paints and...
The world is going through some troubled times right now. Unless you have been living under a rock I suspect you already know that. One saint I feel is truly needed right now is the archangel, Raphael. The angels are just plain awesome Many EpicPew articles have been...
