There is in Scripture a sharp awareness of the love dimension inherent in all of God’s commands leveled on his people.
ReadPrepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths (Mt. 3:3; cf. Is. 40:3)
ReadThese are but a few of the thousands of saints and blesseds who have changed history for the better. It remains for all of us to continue the “perpetual praise” that the saints offered to God while they walked the earth.
ReadThey are testaments to the Church’s keen desire to communicate the message of the Bible in the most effective way possible at any particular point in time.
ReadThe humanity of Christ as intensive focus for a loving devotion and as pathway to the ultimate mystery of divine presence perdures as a great lingering influence of the French school of spirituality.
ReadThe life of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina offers us a profound appreciation, a deeper understanding, in the light of our faith, of the redemptive value of our own suffering, for ourselves and for others.
Read“I wanted to give my Beloved to drink, and I felt myself consumed with a thirst for souls.”
ReadThe Bread of Life is not merely a sign pointing to future eternal life. Jesus insists: “The bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
ReadThe Annunciation, Botticelli (c. 1444-1510), MET, NYC, USA. Public domain.
