Recently I left my Midwestern home to visit the South. There, the people spoke with their warm drawl and called me “ma’am,” and of course I ate wonderful food.
As I drove through the small towns, it struck me that every town had many churches of many Christian faiths. And yet there were...
According to Luke 23:46, Jesus’s last words were “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” This prayer is from verse 6 of Psalm 31.
The whole psalm could be used for a meditation on Jesus’s suffering and death on the cross. With the psalmist, Jesus could plead, “Be gracious to me, LORD, for I...
The following is an excerpt from Friar Jack’s E-spirations, a free e-newsletter from Franciscan Media. This meditation is offered by Father Jim Van Vurst, OFM.
The word holiness can have a discouraging effect on people. Some immediately dismiss it, perhaps a bit sadly, because they believe that...
“Incline our hearts, according to your will, O God.” These words of prayer regularly occur in liturgical texts such as the Liturgy of the Hours and the Eucharist. The prayer cashes in on the symbol of the human heart and speaks more than an explanation could ever tell. Oh, how we constantly struggle to...
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I was at the graduation ceremony at Ohio State University a few weeks ago to see my son get his diploma (Summa Cum Laude!), but I also got to hear a few speeches. Forty-nine percent of those gathered, I’d guess, didn’t enjoy listening to President Obama (51 percent did, I guess), but everyone...
Today’s feast day reminds me of an unfinished task. Some years ago, while studying the German language, I stumbled across a book that contained a short life of St. Boniface. The book showed an image that depicted Boniface as a bishop with miter and pallium, holding a sword in his right hand with a book...
