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Alexis circled Father William at our gathering and waited on him like an attentive wife. They looked at each other adoringly. When I...

‘Any community based on a shared injury will not set people free. Integration—wholeness—must involve otherness.’ Rediscovering Our Lost...

‘He afflicted you with hunger then fed you…’ (Deut. 8:3).   I hungered for Jesus and community and California after leaving IHOP-KC. Why...

Lent’s invitation to let go of stuff means little if we don’t invite Jesus into empty spaces.   I am trying this year to make the...

A friend wrote this reflection on the Cross, porn addiction and family, and cleaning house. It prepares me for Ash Wednesday. I hope it...

The film Conclave  dramatizes what the word means: Catholic cardinals who gather to choose a new pope.   What the film fails to convey is...

‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

God is younger than all else. St. Augustine   I have a 99-year-old mother who doesn’t worry about the gap between a body that hurts and...

‘John! John! Wake up! Jesus is God’s Son! Jesus is God’s Son!’ (Carol to John on her conversion, The Way It Was )   Carol saw what others...

Tended by Jesus, chastity is fire in the fireplace: a controlled burn that heats up a cold house, eases up for tenderness, stays true to...

Previously published on March 30th, 2015 ‘Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good’ (Rom. 12:21). All sins are not created...

I’m grateful, even joyful about changes going on at IHOP. Aquinas said joy was a state of well-being based on reality. Let’s get real....

October 11th-November 19th, 2023 ‘I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Him’ (2 Cor....

Previously published on April 30, 2014 Mercy is God’s ache for His children: a stream of unfailing love flowing from His heart towards...

What if your pastor asked you to help make your church a healing community for the sexually broken? This is what I would say: As a young...

‘I look upon you at every moment with all the delicacy of My divine friendship, with an inexhaustible mercy.’ In Sinu Jesu A friend of...

I tend to prepare myself for the worst on this Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Family. I have heard too many dismal homilies on the...

By Abbey Foard We enter the manger tonight and adore Infant Jesus. There He invites us to heal. Let me give you an example from a recent...

By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director ‘The way to holiness is the path of My friendship. There are many who complicate the way of...

‘The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house; yet it did not fall, because it was founded on the...