We who trust in God’s grace will discover no limits to our own mercy.
Prayer
Posted inFaith, The Word
The Power of the Church at Work
God is at work enabling the church to reconcile the estranged, to restore ties of affection among people and to pray for the realization of God’s dreams.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Saying grace with a tortured prisoner
I wondered if it is because he sees the unseen that his prayer was slower, perhaps more sincere than mine.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The day my kids convinced me to pray for President Trump
The president had become a staple of our family dinner conversations. Then something clicked.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: Pray to God to free us of the “inhuman violence” of terrorism
“We carry in our hearts the pain of the acts of terrorism that in these last days have caused numerous victims.”
Posted inFaith, News
Charlottesville’s Catholic students are ready to heal wounds, chaplain says
“We can overcome evil with good if we stand together.”
Posted inFaith, The Word
Authentic Vision
A friend of mine received a set of virtual reality goggles last Christmas and invited me over to try them out. I was not expecting much. When I first tried VR a few years ago, I found the technology clunky and expensive, and the images were about as “real” as scenes from my 1999 version […]
Posted inFaith, The Word
Take Lord, Receive
When we try to control our life story, we actually lose our freedom.
Posted inFaith, The Word
You Are the One!
In the spiritual life, insight is the result of faith, not its cause.
Posted inFaith, News
Chaplain offers Mass aboard ship for Marines killed in crash of Osprey
Navy chaplain Father David J. Hammond said Mass in the USS Bonhomme’s Star of the Sea Chapel for three Marines who died when their aircraft went down off the coast of Australia.