First, teach your children how to pray. I have a friend who lamented the fact that, as Catholics, we “have been taught how to repeat, not how to pray”. I don’t know if you are aware of this, [...]
Hope is powerful. But hope is not merely optimism or wishful thinking. Often, people I work with who share their desire to live in hope seem to reveal that what they long for is optimism. [...]
The Catholic Church has always taught on the universal goodness of, well, the universe. Further, the Church teaches a number of powerful truths related to human dignity. First, “man has been [...]
Let’s make this as simple as possible. Jesus talks about three areas that are indispensable regarding the Christian life: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. For Lent, do one thing in each of [...]
We recently had a funeral for a family member. I was a bit annoyed by how much the priest talked about Jesus and how little he talked about the person who had died. Isn’t the funeral supposed [...]
There are people who just can’t seem to break free from the past. I have one piece of advice for them: laugh. Laugh at yourself. So many of us are stuck in the past because we take ourselves [...]
What you are describing is one of the seven deadly sins. That may be alarming, but let me clarify what a deadly sin is. A deadly sin is not always, in and of itself, grave matter. The deadly [...]
So why do we do it? In a strange way, I believe that we think we are beating someone else to the punch. If I can punish myself, then no one else will. We think that we are sparing ourselves [...]
God approves of so much joy! God approves of so much good! He made a good world and then sets His beloved humans in the midst of this world and bids us to enjoy it!
Our problem is not [...]
Think of any great story. Every one of them is built upon this premise. If they weren’t, there is no real conflict; instead of fighting courageously when one encounters overwhelming odds or faces [...]
For the first time in history, we exist in a society that has reduced human life to the individual. While this movement has a grain of truth and goodness to it (the human person truly does have [...]
In his book, “The Power of Habit”, Charles Duhigg points out that we often adopt a “habit loop”. It consists of three parts: the cue, the routine, and the reward. Virtually every habit we have [...]