Having a Plan to Encounter JESUS
Creating the right conditions
JOHN P. LOZANO
While there are a multitude of ways to encounter Jesus, it is important to have a focus, a
plan, or...
How Catholics of the Past Lived When Deprived of the Mass
By William O’Leary
Millions of Catholics in the United States and elsewhere are currently are not able to attend Mass and receive Jesus in Holy...
10 Blessings From Living at Such a Time As This
PATTI MAGUIRE ARMSTRONG
Faith gives us focus to see more clearly through raging storms such as the world pandemic we find ourselves in. Of course,...
Easter Without the Exsultet (Or what I’m going to miss this year)
COLLEEN R. VERMEULEN
“Stay Home. Stay Safe. Save Lives. This order takes effect on March 24, 2020 at 12:01 am, and continues through April 13,...
Live-streamed Eucharistic Adoration — Wherever You Are!
By Pat Gohn
I have been on my parish Adoration Team — doing a scheduled one-hour-a-week on Fridays — since February, 2001. It's a habit...
A Family “Rule of Life” Reduces Anxiety, Brings Peace
WILLIAM O'LEARY
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, our kids are now home all day and sometimes claim they “cannot do anything!”
As much as we enjoy our...
5 Tips for Engaging Young Adults
A professor at Loyola Institute of Ministry offers advice
BETH DONZE
It’s a refrain heard repeatedly in Catholic Church parishes across the country: “We would like...
An Advent Calendar for Adults
Advent is a four-week period of increased prayer and preparation before Christmas.
We are well acquainted with the practice of employing Advent calendars with children...
WINE – Women in the New Evangelization
A Catholic women’s ministry calling women to greater holiness
KELLY WAHLQUIST
In his apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate (On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World),...
A Catechism Lesson: Discouraged by Evil and Sin? Take heart!
By Pat Gohn
Discouraged by evil and sin? Take heart!
Our Catholic faith helps us understand the spiritual battle between God and evil. We’ve all...
