If you think you’ve got a worthwhile story to tell other than reasoning it out with God, here are some tips: pray, think like a Christian, and check your memory. Many of my friends and acquaintances talk about writing an autobiography at the senior...
Michael Baglino
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The Owner of Our Hearts
Distressed and feeling powerless before evils of many kinds, we quickly forget that God our Father has full knowledge of our situation and of our spontaneous reaction to evil. We can begin with some most comforting...
One Nation Under God
Having just celebrated our country’s 250th anniversary of independence, it is noteworthy that America was intentionally founded as “one nation under God,” and most of our founding fathers publicly acknowledged His...
The Right Path
This parable of the Sower contrasts our many human limits with God’s love-driven boundlessness and infinitude. Due to our physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological limits and to the restricted resources...
Who Am I— in Christ?
Oh, St. Anthony look around; something is lost and cannot be found. Or is it ‘someone’ is lost? Ever think about where you fit in a sociological sense or belong within the body of Christ? What role do we play in the...
The Lord is Calling Each of Us
One summer morning a farmer named Ned was helping his neighbor Willy build a new fence, but the work was going slowly. Finally, Ned deliberately dropped a fence post in a muddy puddle of water, splattering both men with...
Liturgical Participation Trophies
I became Catholic in 1996 and discovered the Latin Mass in 2008. That year I read many essays on the differences between the traditional Mass and the Novus Ordo. I remember how many of the Novus Ordo apologists talked...
Jennifer Borek
Is This Sacred?
It was a loud, almost raucous, crowd that had assembled in the large building. Today would mark a major moment in their lives. Soon the man who would preside over the festivities stepped out onto the raised platform and...
Thomas Addis
Becoming Saints
Do you want to become saints? Here is the secret: confession is the lock; confidence in your confessor is the key. This is how you open heaven’s gates. St John Bosco (1815-88) According to The Catechism of the Catholic...
William Borst
