The pope wants to to clear up the confusion around the phrase “lead us not into temptation.”
Prayer
Posted inFaith, The Word
Immaculate Conception: The feast that calls us to live lives ‘full of grace’
When we trust the action of grace in our lives, God will, over time, craft for us a life many times better than any we left behind.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Learning to pray on the pediatric oncology ward
Healing for my baby daughter was the hardest thing to ask for. I was afraid of false hope.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
There’s no problem with praying after a mass shooting—but what does that prayer look like?
The real problem is not the offering of prayers in the face of tragedy but the interpretation of what prayer entails.
Posted inFaith, The Word
A Talent for the Gospel
When the Master returns, he will want to know what we did to further the compassion, humility, freedom and love he entrusted to us.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Inherit the Kingdom
God’s “sheep” know their dependence. Knowledge of their own need for grace opens their hearts to the needs of others.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
In purgatory, God turns back time—and transforms sin
God’s mercy finds a way to fix, in time, in us, what a time of sin has distorted.
Posted inFaith
A prayer for wildfire victims
Almighty God, who alone created the beauty and the bounty of our land, who cares and loves everyone, be with your people in California now in the midst of the fires.
Posted inFaith, The Word
The Relationship That Matters
Only those who understand true humility can walk with Christ each day into the presence of the Father.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Those Who Are Ready
Only three Sundays remain in the church year. Each of them includes a Gospel about the end times.