A Lesson from the Cherubim, Sing When it Hurts

Life is hard. Sometimes dark. There are times when troubles pile so high we fear we might suffocate under them. We are lonely. We are scared. We are burdened.

Fiction Featuring Shroud of Turin Gives Weight to the Evidence

Millions of Christians around the world believe the Shroud of Turin to be the actual linen burial cloth that wrapped the broken and battered body of the historical Jesus of Nazareth after His crucifixion, a hypothesis that has been extensively… Read More

Living Water in the Desert

Water is such an invigorating element. Biology tells us it is the main ingredient necessary to generate and sustain life; it is, therefore, a telling symbol, as Jesus so beautifully indicated. It was into the waters of primeval chaos that… Read More

Wildflowers and Luminous Souls

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.
It has always struck me as almost a waste that God makes so very many of… Read More

How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution

It was the New Year of ’95, and after having quit for several months, I had picked up smoking again during a move out of state and away from my family. It was a lame attempt at comfort-seeking, but it… Read More

Promise Carriers

“Before God, who is eternal, you are much more a child than, before you, the tiniest toddler. And besides being a child, you are a child of God. – Don’t forget it” (Josemaria Escriva, Spiritual Childhood ).
It is the… Read More

Grave of the Craving

Advent is calling, beckoning Catholics to retrench, reconsider, re-evaluate. The economic downturn has revealed an enormous tragic flaw in personal and public policy, and one only has to listen for the wailing and gnashing of teeth to pinpoint its location.… Read More

The Advent Highway

I am a legend. My notoriety as a motor vehicle operator is a well-acknowledged fact even to my neighbors, friends and extended family. Five years ago I shocked them all when I blew up my husband’s cherished ’78 4×4. I… Read More

The Valley of Hell

Because modern life is so marked by prosperity for the greater portion of the earth, we rarely grasp the full impact of our spiritual position as a people, nation, or global family. Tragedy and evil seem so removed simply because… Read More

The Bed of the Soul

There is a strange little book in the Bible. Situated within the wisdom section of the Old Testament is the Song of Solomon, in which the first verse reads, “The song of songs . . . ” Similar in language… Read More

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