“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, wholly directed to the Father, in union with the human will of the Son of God made man. …[P]rayer is the living relationship of the children of God with their Father who is good beyond measure, with his Son Jesus Christ and with the Holy Spirit. The grace of the Kingdom is ‘the union of the entire holy and royal Trinity … with the whole human spirit.’ Thus, the life of prayer is the habit of being in the presence of the thrice-holy God and in communion with him. This communion of life is always possible because, through Baptism, we have already been united with Christ” (CCC 2564-2565).
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“Truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit,” [i] spoke Jesus to Nicodemus. St. John the Evangelist recounts the events of that conversation for us to learn of the power of baptism into Jesus, so that by the power of...
Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you, spoke the angel. Our Lady gives her consent, and the Word is made flesh in her. She is preserved from the stain of sin because Jesus was to take His human nature from her. She is the “first fruit” of His redemptive act. ...
On March 2, 2022, Ash Wednesday, the Catholic Church enters the Season of Lent. Lent is a time of prayer and penance in preparation for the great feast of Easter, but it is also like a medicine for each one of us to help restore us to health and to rectify areas of...
"How do we know what to do to in order to find lasting happiness? If today we sometimes equate prudence with caution or timidity, to Aquinas, prudence is the virtue by which we may attain to greater personal fulfillment and true freedom. To see prudence from his...
People immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they...
February 11, 2022 | 30th World Day of the Sick | To touch the suffering flesh of Christ[i] In his message for the World Day of the Sick, Pope Francis includes these powerful words for those who care for the sick: Care that Transcends Profession and Becomes a Mission...
Emmanuel, God-with-us, by wedding the divine nature to a human nature, is born in time. A baby is born to die; the king will reign from the cross; the Savior destroys death by dying on the cross. His conception and birth herald the dawning of our redemption. His...
In this time with so many difficult things happening, the pandemic, financial instability, political conflict, and wars, many people are asking if these are the end times. In many ways, there will be conflict and peace will not be finally established until the coming...
What is common about the saints in heaven and the souls in purgatory? They will share the heavenly homeland. Yes, while the saints live seeing God face to face, those in purgatory (the Church Suffering) are destined for this glory and blessedness. Those in...
"Give me a free hand;" this is the reported response that Jesus gave to Saint Margaret Mary when she asked, "What must I do?"[i] This is how saints are made. For it is of His fullness, we have received grace upon grace.[ii] For each of us there are but two options...