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...
Prayer
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...
What Mary Hansen rmembers about her father's sudden death 22 years ago was praying the rosary at St. Anthony's Church in Tigard, Oregon. She and...
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal...
