To go and proclaim the Gospel, we first need to set down the burden of our history at the feet of the Lord, to consign to him ...

Mystic-stigmatist Luz de Maria de Bonilla received recently messages from Our Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father The latest message received was when Our Lord ...

Whenever God conveyed a message to the Israelites, such message began with the word “Hear” or “Listen” (Shema), as is the case in our First Reading. This means that the first responsibility of the ...

Rev. Fr. John Damian ADIZIE PGB.The LORD God is our Shep­herd. He is a Compassionate God. In the gospel of John chapter ten, our LORD Je­sus Christ presents Himself as our Good Shepherd: “I am the ...

The Church through sacred scripture gives us three primary tools for Lent: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. In our Lenten ...

From the Shire to Mount Doom, Frodo’s path was mapped with the Church calendar in mind — a quiet testament to Tolkien’s ...

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Yet while most of us can always use a lesson in humility, with this Lenten season halfway over, I wanted to spend time on the ...

EVEN Catholics may have missed it: the March 25 Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, celebrating God becoming human in ...

I have been thinking a great deal about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s contention that the followers of Jesus can confess sins of their society/nation that they themselves have not engaged in. This prayer ...

We all wish to be. And we fail miserably because control cannot be in our hands. Lord Krishna explains, “The place of action and the doer and many different kinds of instruments and many different ...

1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all ...