As I knelt there in veneration, I was overcome with a sense of encouragement: these saints loved God, proclaimed the Gospel, and lived Jesus in their very bones, and the joy in my life will be to do the same.

The upending of a great many activities and relationships is a real suffering that we need to acknowledge and grieve. Without actively working our way through our losses, we’re likely to remain trapped in traumatic stress for some time to come.

We call priests “father,” but I’ve always thought of myself as a father by analogy. What I know of fatherhood, I know from my own father and the dads I spend time with: I observe characteristics that good fathers share, and I want to embody the same.

The sowing of seeds and the growth of crops and plants is a very natural picture. As such, it reflects something of the creator.

The Council of Trent declared that “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained” in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

The Three-Personal God: Trinity Sunday

Our very identity, then, is being in community. Through and with and in Christ, we are caught up in this love exchange of the tri-personal God.

Bringing Heaven to Earth: Pentecost Sunday

We see from the preface that God, in bestowing the Holy Spirit, unites the Apostles (and us) to Jesus and so makes them (and us) His adopted children.

Through partnership with RIP Medical Debt, we have been able to lift the crushing weight of unpaid bills, debt collectors, and financial strain during low-points of sickness and disability for 3,602 New Jersey residents.

Being Jesus: The Ascension of the Lord

Jesus’ Ascension allows him to be immediately present to his people, whom he commissions to bring God’s love to life in the world.

Chosen to Bear Fruit: Easter's sixth Sunday

Mother's Day is a day to admit gratefully the fact that none of us is able to return, in the same measure, our mothers' love.

Life on the Vine: Easter's fifth Sunday