The Catholic mass always concludes with an instruction to go and share the Gospel of the Lord. We leave mass with the best of intentions to live our faith only to forget everything once we are behind the steering wheel in the car!
What if there was a way to make the mass, particularly the Eucharist, a way of life?
On this holy day of the Epiphany, we celebrate the Magi’s arrival to pay homage to the newborn king. Two thousand years later, these men remain somewhat of a mystery. Yet what we do know is sufficient for prayerful meditation.
Jesus’ birth is one of the most important events in all of salvation history. Sacred art, including our nativity sets, exist to depict this sacred, solemn event. It specifically is a depiction of the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. It is a pronouncement that the Messiah has come. As society has lost touch with its God, so too we Catholics have lost touch with the Sacred…
Christmas Eve has arrived and it is perhaps the day in which we most profoundly contemplate the circumstances of Christ’s birth. Jesus chose His parents and the circumstances…
Catholics too often need to suffer the famine of grace, the drought of love and peace, before they are willing to consider that just maybe life’s answers aren’t found in their own self-reliance. Interior freedom is only found by surrendering to God.