
Facing Our Struggles
Whether or not we realize it, everyone we know is struggling with some type of burden in his or her life. It takes courage to face down those challenges.
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Whether or not we realize it, everyone we know is struggling with some type of burden in his or her life. It takes courage to face down those challenges.

I’ve always loved a good mystery. There’s a sense of adventure in not always knowing what’s in store for me.

My aunt says that her parish priest told her that God will not raise at the Last Judgment anyone who has chosen to be cremated. Is that true? If so, why?

There is a quote attributed to St. Bonaventure that is worth pondering, again and again: “God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.”

All mystics wonder what is happening to them when the Holy Spirit asks them to believe the seemingly impossible notion that God wants to enter their lives.

Q. I am feeling very guilty. I was driving my car and accidentally hit a man with my side mirror. I never saw him, and I don’t know if he stepped in front of me or not. The only reason I know he was hit was my side mirror flipped in, and I heard the snap. I immediately pulled over and asked the man if he was OK.

Eremo delle Carceri is a hermitage upon Mount Subasio where Francis and his brothers spent extended periods in prayerful solitude.

We’re all called to be prophets and mystics.

How often do we fail to entrust the future to God? How quickly do we worry about what we cannot control?

Solidarity means we are all in this together, and none of us can say, “Your end of the Titanic is sinking.”