Stepping Forward with Hope-Filled Commitment
By Jonathan Lynch. I have been waiting a long time for his feast day (May 2nd) to come around so I could write this article. His life has all the marks of a crime thriller mixed with an adventure saga and a religious novel: betrayal, manhunts, intrigue, escape, and all the formidable power of his enemies building up into a climactic tower that crumbled at his touch, for in his soul was all the power of a friend of God...
By Jonathan Lynch. The fact of the matter is, St. Patrick's Day is coming up, and if you don't celebrate it, I want to give you a reason to. And what is more, I want to give you a reason to really celebrate every holiday, and PARTY LIKE A PRO! If you want to have a good time, read on.
By CJ Kallevig. I want to talk to you about one of my favorite topics: saints! I’m going to focus on two particular categories of saints today, patron saints and Confirmation saints...
By Jonathan Lynch. So what makes him a Doctor of the Church? He did not write volumes upon volumes, or even just a couple of whopping great books on theology. But that's not what makes a Doctor of the Church...
By Shelby Hawks. If you had asked me a year ago who my favorite saints were, I would have nervously stammered and uttered the first few names that came to mind. I had never had real relationships with the saints because for the longest time they had seemed so vastly different from me...
By Jonathan Lynch. I would like to introduce you to a man named Francis de Sales, whose feast day is the 24th of this month. Francis was the eldest of six sons born to Francis and Frances de Sales. Talk about recycling names, right?
By Jonathan Lynch. We have all said these words before every single time that we pray the Lord's Prayer at every single Mass that we participate in. They roll off the tongue with every decade of the rosary. But do we ever really think about what they mean...
By Jonathan Lynch When you hear "Doctor of the Church," what do you think? A phrase like that probably doesn't get you hyped, pumped, or otherwise thrilled. It's easy to dismiss the saints who bear that title as "ancient geniuses," "really pious people," and "lofty intellectual guys." And while these saints (there are three dozen... Continue Reading →
By Br. Nathan Linton, OFM, Cap. St. Francis of Assisi saw all of creation, including death, as a means of understanding and drawing closer to God. He wrote a beautiful poem called the “Canticle of the Creatures” in which he spoke of Brother Sun and Sister Moon and of how each gives praise to God through their mere existence...
