In a recent homily, our parish priest discussed the staggering fact that 80 percent of baptized young people are leaving the Faith before they are 25 years old.
Category: love
What Can We Promise in Response to Our Lord?
“Can you come after Me by taking up your cross daily— the cross I have laid upon you to liken you to Myself?”
11 Inspirational Quotes about Sacrifice
We are called to give everything, without holding back. Sometimes it’s hard to comprehend the lengths to which we are asked to extend ourselves. Perhaps the quotes below will help to inspire you to desire the love that He desires for you; if not, perhaps at the very least they will provoke a deeper reflection of your Christian vocation.
Lord, Teach me to Praise You
Do this for me, O dearest Lord. Praise does not come easily to these lips of mine. The cares of life, and its failures, and its pains; heaviness of soul, and the weight of the corruptible body, with all the engrossingness of self, wring my heart dry of praise.
If God is Our Best Friend, Why do We Treat Him Like a Doormat?
He wants our intercourse with Him to be perfectly free; nothing studied, nothing strained. He desires to have us as we are, no less than as we would be.
10 Great Books for Lent That You Won’t Find on Other Lists
Most of us are looking for spiritual reading suggestions that will serve us well during the Lenten season. Of course, there are the tried and true recommendations – Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux, Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales and others are amazing choices, and can certainly be read over and over again. But if you’re looking for something a little different this year, I have just the thing.
Five Ways to Model Your Family after the Holy Family
The Holy Family is the ideal to which all other families should subscribe, if they hope to find joy and fulfillment in this life.
Charity: Divine Love Poured Out
Divine Revelation has shown us that God is a free and total outpouring and exchange of charity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. What is more is that He has destined us to share in this great and mysterious exchange of divine love!
The Church’s Apostolic Charity
As agents of Christ in the world, our approach to the world around us ought to be different than that of an unbeliever.
The Terrible Beauty of God’s Love
Despite our complete inadequacy before God, we know that He desires that we open up ourselves in order to give ourselves to Him to the best of our abilities—even if it falls short. Love requires an openness that makes one vulnerable.
