, “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. What do...
God, I want to pray and tell you that Lent is too hard, that fasting is too frustrating, the meditation too unmanageable, your Spirit too distant. But at the v...
“Miserable offenders, spare thou them,” the congregation intoned as I bowed my head. The Church I usually feel so uplifted by felt transformed into a place of ...
But this was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own cou...
On Ash Wednesday, many churches read from the Gospel Jesus’s warning against hypocrisy: "Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to sta...
There is an ancient principle in the Catholic Church: lex orandi, lex credendi. People often take this to mean that there is some vague identity between our pr...
This Christmas, my family tried something new. Instead of every person buying a gift for each of the other ten family members, we each bought one gift we thoug...
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, P...
