Today's Gospel is one in which Jesus explicitly describes his heart. It's from Matthew 11: 28-30 and goes like this: Jesus said...

Abraham was a man of great faith and it didn’t come easily to him. He grew in faith through the exercise of this virtue. He reached th...

The first reading ( 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21 ) and the gospel ( Luke 9:51-62 ) for today, the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C, refer to pl...

A week ago I enjoyed Southern hospitality in Arnaudville, Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun country. The day before I was at Loyola Universit...

I am in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, where I am in the middle of a retreat for the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Je...

I think that it was when I was in grade school that I got my first holy card. It was a picture of St. Joseph with a prayer that could be sai...

I first heard about the Guard of Honor several years ago when I gave a retreat to the Visitation Sisters in Brooklyn, NY .  I saw a dial w...