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The poet Rumi once wrote: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” How often do we try to do too much in a given day?
We return over and over to the same place, a connection to the unswerving, the unchanging: God.
Many years ago, as a child of 11 or 12, I read a book on Fatima. At the end of the book was a pledge called a heroic act where persons pledged to give all the indulgences they earned during life and after death to the souls in purgatory.
Simplicity brings clarity and joy, freeing us from the burdens of excess.
One of my favorite verses in the stories of Jesus’ healing ministry comes from the Gospel of Luke. It tells of Jesus healing at the
A niece of my husband has become very close to one of her second cousins. They and some family members are questioning if they are too closely related to marry one another. Are they?
Television commercials and social media ads bombard us with ideas that make us feel inferior and ugly. But we are not ugly
According to Acts 1:26, Matthias was selected to replace Judas, bringing the number of apostles back to 12. I know that the pope, the bishop of Rome, is considered the successor of Peter. Were the other apostles replaced upon their deaths?
Our Franciscan tradition speaks to the idea of unity through community.
The words we use to other people, they matter. What kind of language are we using toward ourselves and other people?
