16
Aug
Why Canon Law Matters By Gregory Caridi
I work a lot with law. Sometimes with real law, as people like to say, but more often with canon law. It’s a good job, but a hard one.
16
Aug
Five Keys to better prayer life
On his way out to recess one day, 9-year-old Bobby said to his teacher, “Sister Michelle, could you please say a prayer for me today?”
16
Aug
When God Feels Far Away
Jennifer is a convert to Catholicism. Until recently, she loved saying the Rosary and attending weekly Eucharistic Adoration. Lately, though, prayer has become dull. Jennifer feels antsy during Adoration. She’s wondering what happened.
14
Aug
Does prayer work ….!
What happens when we pray for a sick person to recover, and they don’t?
Every Saturday it was the same. We’d pile into the car, my mom and dad, my brother and sister and I, and off we’d go to visit my grandmother. I was 9, and the visits, for me, were always a mixture of joy and sadness.
04
Aug
Humanizing God
We understand how our own hands are so important in expressing our love and care for one another—a touch, a protective hold. That image also tells us about God.
We are all familiar with the ways in which Jesus used imagery to help us understand who he was. He described himself as the shepherd and we are his sheep.