This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by James Green. […]
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How Can I Become a Better Catholic Husband and Father to my Family?
Dear Sister, I’ve been reading your answers to questions on Integrated Catholic Life™ and have been playing with the idea of writing you a question that I’ve been thinking about for many years. It’s about my family. I don’t consider us bad Catholics, nor do I consider us to be devout “pillars of the parish”. We are just a regular […]
What is Your Greatest Hope
What would you say is your greatest hope? What is the one thing you would identify if you were pressed to offer only one answer to this question: What is your greatest hope? Scripture actually has a great deal to say about this virtue of hope, not the least of which: “For whatever was written previously was written for our […]
Whitsun Embertide, Saturday, 2019
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Mary R. Finnegan. […]
The Creative Silence
“When we work from silence, we teach silence”: Applying Cardinal Sarah’s The Power of Silence to the creative life.
Discovering God in Silence
A prayerful, meditative silence is the mother of truth. by Sister Mary Clare, O.C.D. Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles God cannot be found in noise and agitation. His true power and love are revealed in what is hardly perceptible, in the gentle breeze that requires stillness and quiet to detect. In silence, God listens to […]
What Difference Does Heaven Make?
Heaven’s Difference If a thing makes no difference, it is a waste of time to think about it. We should begin, then, with the question, “What difference does Heaven make to earth, to now, to our lives?” The answer to the question is only the difference between hope and despair in the end, between two totally different visions of life; […]
Like Peter
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. Like Peter Like Peter I know not where I’m to go when others shy at mystery […]