Staying Detached while Discerning? The only strength we have is in God's grace. That means that you have to bring his grace into your life actively, depend absolutely on it, and then not be afraid since Christ is the first one to want you to be faithful.
The Steps What steps should be taken before entering the seminary?
Is this God's will? Are we supposed to believe that everything that happens on a daily basis, day by day, is God's will and we should say yes to everything?
I Just Want to Know What I Am to Do Why does it feel that everyone is telling me to join the religious life when I am having these dry feelings?
The Presentation of the Lord Our Lady is the first and most exalted model for every consecrated person. Dear brothers and sisters, let yourselves be guided by her. Turn to her for help with humble trust, especially in moments of trial.
Why Lent Has Forty Days . . . But other languages, such as Spanish, have a name for this season that is derived from the word for forty. It is the season of the forty days.
Lent: The Journey of Reconciliation This is the invitation that the liturgy addresses to us at the beginning of Lent, urging us to be aware of the gift of salvation offered, in Christ, to everyone.
Transfiguration, Lent, and the Passion Printed Appearances can be deceiving. After all, Jesus was just another Galilean. His hands were the rough hands of a workman. People in Nazareth knew his mother. Some even remembered the man that was his dad.
Am I Doing the Right Thing? I have been thinking about a religious vocation for quite some time now. In fact, it has been three years. I have been praying, and I began talking about this with friends and some of the sisters at my parish.
A Special Friendship for Your Child In her newly released book, Jesus I Feel Close to You (Paulist Press, November 2004, hardcover, 32 pages), author and art teacher Denise Stuckey employs images from a child’s everyday life to help emphasize the importance of a close and personal relations
Our Faith: The Eucharist The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means
Young Catholic Musician Following God's Plan for Her Life Kelly-Lynn Federman has been busy following her dreams and trying to determine God's path in her young life. In many respects, she's a typical fifteen year old, with dreams of a big, bright future.
Charming, Cool and Catholic With her upbeat lyrics, musicianship and a faith that shines through in every song, Sarah Hart manages to bridge the generation gap between mother and son in my home.
I Feel My Vocation Drifting Away There are a lot of things I will no longer be able to do in my typical college student life if I start now. I want to have all the fun I can. Is this selfish of me?
Failing My Vocation If you realize now that you made a mistake years back by giving into your father’s pressure, but the sense of a call to the priesthood persists, look into it.
A Family Guide to Holy Week The liturgies of the Church throughout Holy Week are the pre-eminent way to remember the passion of Christ and grow closer to Christ. They are the heart and soul of the week’s spiritual experience. Here are some ways to enhance them by preparing for them
Could God be knocking at my door as well? The real signs will be a little deeper, a lot more personal, and will have to do with your own love for Christ and your desire to give yourself to him totally.
Who is the Priest? What does it mean to be a priest? According to St. Paul, it means above all to be a steward of the mysteries of God . . .
Bendict XVI Biography Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and International Theological Commission, Dean of the College of Cardinals, was born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germa