The joy of conversion, Christian community, and the Catholic faith
Jeremiah 23:1-6; Psalms 23:1-6; Ephesians 2:13-18; Mark 6:3-34 As we grow deeper in our relationship with Jesus, we may find this Good Shepherd image helpful and comforting. Doubleday’s Catholic Bible Dictionary, general editor, Scott Hahn, speaks about sheep herding. It was the most common profession in the ancient world. In the first book of the...
Featured in CatholicMom.com Is your heart an open cup or half closed and already full? Is it a cup of bitterness? Suspicion? Self-absorption? God loves us more than we can imagine. He wants us to know him intimately. He wants to express his love for us by giving us more and more of himself—all that...
From the fourth-floor balcony of a building deep in Cape Canaveral’s Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex we waited with expectant faith the launch of GPSIIF-9. The satellite stood on the launch pad two miles straight in front of us. Our position was the closest safe viewing point, underscored by area-wide announcements for anyone near the...
Jeremiah 20:7-9; Psalms 63:2-6, 8-9); Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 16:21-27 When we look more deeply at these readings there is an underlying note. God created everything. When he made us he placed a longing within us for a union with himself. It is an emptiness; we are looking for fulfillment. We look for humans and things...