Never Stop Forgiving
One of my favorite stories about the Sacred Heart revelations is when St. Margret Mary Alacoque told her confessor, Fr. Claude de la Colombière, that she was seeing…
Faith Library
Author: W.L. Grayson
Clarity and Confusion
There is a song that was particularly dear to me many years ago when I came to my conversion experience. One of the lyrics goes “Lord, take the…
No Detente with the World
“I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My…
The Failure of the Saints
St. Francis of Assisi went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. When he returned, he found out that two of his vicars has made changes to the…
All That Lasts Forever
A short reflection this Monday: According to our best scientists, the universe will end. Entropy is a real thing where all of the energy will eventually be used…
Journeying As Evangelization
In my last article, I wrote about how if you give tacit approval to people who are doing something morally evil then you are complicit. However, I believe…
Ferrymen on the Way to Hell
Recently there was a news story about a man named Robert Fuller. He was a man dying of cancer who took his own life. This, in and of…
Reverence and Protest at Mass
Very recently at St. Francis Church in Portland, Oregon, a group of parishioners thought it would be a good idea to stage a protest during Holy Mass. The…
Observing Grief
Like you, my mind and my heart are reeling after this latest round of mass shootings. Confusion, grief, fear, and outrage are all swirling around inside me. On…
You Don’t Have to Be a Saint to Save Someone
One of the biggest internal obstacles to people sharing the Gospel is their own personal sense of sinfulness. “How can I tell others to live more Christ-like when…