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Sometimes when we try to be helpful, to do something particularly kind for someone else, despite our best efforts, the gift we intend is not the one received.
The incarnation is at the heart of our faith, and what we celebrate in this season.
Remember that old refrain, “He’s got the whole world in his hands”? God’s also got each one of us in his hands, and he doesn’t let go.
In our nativity scenes, the image of the Blessed Mother draws our line of sight from her eyes to the Infant Jesus.
“Be strong, fear not! Here is your God” (Is 35:4). Today we choose joy and rejoice not in wishful thinking, but in the reality of God’s saving love.
One of the religious cable channels regularly runs old, and usually forgettable, movies about biblical heroes.
Sometimes our faith can feel isolating. Yet its promise is that Jesus welcomes us all to the table as we rejoice in his love for us.
Anyone who has lived or worked in Latin America or in the United States among Hispanic Catholics knows the warmth of their love and affection for Our Lady of Guadalupe.
This month during a baptism in my parish, a toddler called out loudly, “I see the baby’s face!”, and we erupted into laughter. What image of the Christ Child comes to mind as the perfect face of a baby?
Many Catholics of my generation and older have been influenced by women religious who educated us as young Catholics.
