You cannot be half a saint! You must be a whole saint or not a saint at all!
~St Therese of Lisieux
Lenten Conversion Through Inner Discipline
It seems that Lent has flown by at lightning speed, and now we are at the threshold of Holy Week. But if you haven’t quite lived up to the promises you made at the beginning […]
Don’t Waste Lent (Have a Plan)
Lent is a time of reckoning – a spiritual reckoning before God. In a sense, the Season of Lent is a sort of a trial run each year which prepares us for meeting our Maker […]
Seven Awesome Catholic Devotions
When Olivia Newton John was fawning over John Travolta in the 1978 classic movie Grease, she sang that she was “Hopelessly Devoted” to him. Hmmm. I guess that can be a good thing in a […]
Seven Reliable Prayer Habits
James Clear’s Atomic Habits was the world’s best-selling book in 2021, which gives us some insight into one of the biggest trends in business writing today: habits. People everywhere need the structure and productivity habitual […]
Seven Characteristics of Effective Prayer
Prayer nurtures our life of faith as oxygen gives life to fire. Like the eternal flames that burn in front of the Tombs of Unknown Soldiers in different countries, prayer helps us tap into a […]
Does God Allow Souls in Purgatory to Visit the Living?
November is the month of All Souls. It is a yearly reminder of our obligation to pray for the souls who, as our doctrine teaches, are in a process of post-death purification. The souls in […]
Saint Joseph the Worker
St. Joseph is the friend and ally of all believers: he is the patriarch of God’s holy people, the saint of workers, and the patron of the Universal Church. We owe much to his constant […]
We Need Temptation for Spiritual Growth
If you’re not tempted to violate your core values from time to time, you’re not growing in the most important dimension of your being: your spirit. Actually, we need temptation for spiritual growth. That is […]
Healer of Sin and Division
The Blessed Virgin Mary, known in her litany as Queen of Peace, Mother of Mercy, Comfort of the Afflicted, among other titles, looks down upon the whole world from Heaven and sees the […]
That You May Bear Much Fruit
Most everyone knows what it means to bear fruit in the natural sense of bringing children into the world, or in the financial sense of making an investment profitable. But what does it really mean […]
Five Infallible Ways to Keep the Devil at Bay
A pronounced feature of the countryside surrounding the beautiful city of Cali, Columbia is a set of three crosses perched atop the mountains to the east. But no one can recall who put them up […]
Centered in the Eucharist
As the Church departs the glorious season of Easter and returns to Ordinary Time, we take a moment to pause and remind ourselves how we may grow in holiness during the “normal” course of our […]
Joseph the Fearless
St. Joseph is an integral part of the story of Advent, but let’s not be too facile about his calling to be the foster-father of Jesus Christ. Joseph’s obedience to the Angel’s message, his embrace […]
Surrounded by This Cloud of Witnesses
The month of November begins with a blaze of spiritual light: the Solemnity of All Saints. This feast day highlights the perpetual beauty of literally the most fascinating people in history: the men, women, and […]
