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Nothing conveys God’s love better than telling our stories of God’s unfailing love. Our surrender to His on the Cross has become for us...

Mercy: An urgent call for testimony Barbara Vittucci (a longstanding friend of DSM/LW, Barb resides in Vienna, Austria and has been a...

Last week I discovered some unexpected momentum for our prayer/fasting time. While wondering how I might keep a prayerful focus amid our...

As we continue our 40-days of prayer for loved ones, we bump up against some thick walls, or defenses, that surround their sexually...

As we proceed on our 40 days of prayer/fasting for loved ones, we discover a marvelous truth: prayer leads to intimacy with God. Simply...

‘The mercy of God is not an abstract idea but a concrete reality through which He reveals His love as that of a mother or father, moved...

‘We remove the organ and deny the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.’ C.S. Lewis ‘And he will...

Those of us who have reduced Pope Francis’ recent encyclical–‘On Care of Our Common Home’–to a holy call to recycle may want to...

‘What the world needs today is the credible witness of people capable of opening hearts and minds to the desire for God and true life.’...

“Jesus rose up…and said to His disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’ ” (Mk 4:39, 40) The sleeping Church can no...

As I looked out at the Latinos who had come forward to ‘clean house’, I was struck by their radiance. Though time-worn, their faces...

‘My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.’ (Matt. 26:38) ‘Sorry God’ has been the gist...

While Obama’s White House shimmered in rainbow hues, while ‘the wicked freely strutted about because what is vile (‘gay marriage’) was...

‘All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to say nothing.’ For a Pope quick to quip about any number of thorny issues, Frances...

‘The burning sand will become a pool; the thirsty ground, a bubbling spring… And a highway will be there; it will be called the way of...

St. John Paul ll said that we discover our true selves only by sincerely giving ourselves to others. We the fallen know also that we can...

‘Unless the seed dies, it remains alone.’ (JN 12: 24) My son Sam’s death took time. His surrender to Jesus was syncopated at best: the...

‘Zeal for Your house will consume me.’ (JN 2:17) Sue Hunt considered ordination as a Buddhist nun in the Ubon region of Thailand. An...

‘Envy is a special sort of sorrow over another’s goods.’ Aquinas Envy is a quiet killer. Less obvious than the other seven, it lurks in...

‘The Spirit sent Jesus into the desert, and He was there forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels...