Get Up Again
Human beings make mistakes. “To err is human”, famously writes Alexander Pope. This means we human beings need forgiveness. A lot of forgiveness! Peter asked Jesus, “Lord, how…
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Category: Conversion & Witness
Stories of grace at work.
The Passion Suffered by the Heart of Jesus: Prayerful Reflections on the Stations of the Cross
I did not know that St. Pope John Paul II had written a scriptural Stations of the Cross in 1991. These stations go deeply into the passion, death…
Wanting
To want something badly is a characteristic human experience. Some things we want so badly that we go to extremes to get them, which can lead to wrongdoing.…
Mercy is an Act of Faith
Yesterday was the Feast of Divine Mercy. It is a devotion of special significance to me. The Mercy of God has been the focal point of my spiritual…
I Have Held the Grail
I love the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In that story, our hero has to save his father and find something I had not heard of…
Be that voice of hope
People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted…
Can We Evangelize in the Midst of Scandal?
Like many Catholics, my heart hurts. It hurt years ago for those who we already knew about, including those hurt in the Philadelphia scandal, and the recent report…
Unbound: A Practical Guide to Deliverance
I discovered Neal Lozano’s book, Unbound: A Practical Guide to Deliverance, when our covenant community planned an Unbound Conference with him. About 50 of us learned how to…
From Hopelessness to Hope
And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character and proven character produces hope.…
Seeing with the Eyes of Faith
Søren Kierkegaard, the famous 19th century Danish philosopher, describes faith in God as a “leap”, a decision to believe in God made not on the basis of evidence,…