Sometimes we all need to have a heart-to-heart with God and own up to our shortcomings. Psalm 51 shows us how to do it. "Have mercy on me, O God, in your...
Prayer
Surviving grief, looking for a path back home The stillness of my apartment is deafening. I wake to the sun beating through my blinds and the drone of the air...
Five minutes before my children go to bed, I am not feeling very holy. They are tired and I am exhausted. There are blue globs of toothpaste in the sink basin...
Advent is the liturgical season of vigilance or, to put it more mundanely, of waiting. During the four weeks prior to Christmas, we light the candles of our...
7 steps to a church worth connecting to. The March 19 celebration of the feast of St. Joseph is in full swing at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia...
The billion prayer march: a play in three short acts Act I. Enter Extreme Poverty. Much wailing and grinding of teeth. She falls to the ground and crawls...
Anne Satorius ia a pretty typical hardworking, faithful Catholic. She teaches catechism at her parish in Milwaukee; she and her husband, Tim, edit the...
With a wink and a smile and a sueeze of the hand. Gilda Rodriguez naturally knows what question to ask, what personal thing to say to each person she greets...
Sometime in the late 12th century a monk named Guigo, the second prior of the monastery of the Grand Chartreuse in France, wrote to his friend Gervase about...
Tell us about your own prayer life. When did you start doing fixed-hour prayer? Although the roots of regular daily prayer go back to my college years, it...
