Never Give Up

"As resplendent as the excellence, power, and magnificence of the Creator were when one contemplated His works, all the same the ...

Relationships and community are so fundamental to being human -- to living fully as a person . Indeed, community and its organic expressi...

Teresa was messing with my hair and got it all sticking up in the back (see The Haircut , top left). I was grumbling about how I really nee...

We cannot live as human persons or build human community together if we cannot trust one another. Trust is a normal component of human co...

"King Herod laid hands upon some members of the church to harm them. He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword" (Act...

I'll be the first to admit that I'm lazy. We're all lazy. Let's face it. But let's also dwell on this fact: if w...

Saint Mary Magdalene, with flask of myrrh and egg symbolizing the resurrection. Antiphon for Morning Prayer on her Feast Day Re...

Longing, yearning, aching for that ultimate "something"--this is the root of my identity and my actions. It is the way my hear...

Words are whirling like a storm, like bullets flying, like glass shattered in the wind. We use more words today than ever before in hi...

"Mother of Christ, let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption: the...

The closest thing to a "vacation" for the Janaros this summer is this local pool/camping area that we were able to join (no, we...

A person should turn his full attention [to Christ], to this throne of mercy, and should gaze at Him hanging on the cross, ful...

Here we are in the early years of a new millennium. History has been quite crazy. People freaked out in '99 and thought the world was...

Today is the Feast of St. Benedict. St. Benedict was a man who went off into the desert in search of God. He sought to dedicate himself...

"God is not one who wills only greatness. God is love, who gives himself first in the Trinity, and then in creation. And to imitate Go...

Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Holy Family (1670) Last Sunday, the Gospel reading spoke of Jesus's first visit to Nazareth after he ha...

We won. We won the World Cup! Our whole family was glued to the television in these days. It's difficult to find a sporting event ...

From the Homily of Pope John Paul II in the United States of America (Baltimore, Maryland) Oct 8, 1995 Dear brothers and sisters in...

Christianity is not external to the real concerns of my life. It illuminates them and opens me up to their true meaning. But this only...

We had a Monopoly marathon going on all day long. This is what happens on wet summer days. Agnese is the only one not playing here, bu...