"Jesus came to make a way for us to heaven through the veil of His flesh" This quote comes from a passage from Saint Athanasius that has been with me over these past months. Saint Athanasius, reflecting on the structure of the Jerusalem temple, writes about the...
The Sacred Heart is “the symbol of the love with which Jesus continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings without exception” (CCC, Glossary). The term also refers to the human heart of Jesus, Whose humanity is substantially united to the Word of God, the...
Christian prayer is a covenant relationship between God and man in Christ. It is the action of God and of man, springing forth from both the Holy Spirit and ourselves…
Some years ago, when I was doing my training as a nurse practitioner, I worked with a surgeon. During a laparoscopic procedure inside a patient’s abdomen, the surgeon was showing me different structures and helping to orient me to what we were looking at by way of a...