“Will you set aside some time and come alongside Catholics from all over the world as we spend time doing the “One Thing Necessary” this holy season?” – Dan Burke
“In marriages, families and parishes, the rough and tumble of human interactions is often permitted by God to smooth us, polish us and beautify us.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“Jesus does not answer Peter because he knows that staying on the mountain is not an option. His mission, his resolution, is to suffer and die out of love for each and everyone of us.” – Thomas Griffin
“Lent is meant to make us fully alive again.” – Thomas Griffin
“Obedience to His love is the foundation of humility, and humility opens the door of the soul to grace. It seems, then, that what God wants most of us this Lent is to return to grace.” – Debra Black
“Your Lent could be the most powerful one yet, an invitation to take a deeper dive into the kind of prayer St. Therese described as ‘a burst from my heart, it is a simple glance thrown toward heaven, a cry of thanksgiving and love in times of trial as well as in times of joy.’” – Dan Burke
“When I adorn Jesus with my love and my brokenness, he can transform me into a saint by His grace – a living mystery of the presence of He who is the Divine Bridegroom of my soul.” – Fr. Matthew MacDonald
So often we are our own worst enemy when it comes to prayer. Claire Dwyer points out the ways we sabotage ourselves.
“If we want Ash Wednesday Catholics to become All Sunday Catholics, maybe we can learn to build on what brings them in the first place and be less anxious to echo the opening words of Jesus’ public ministry, ‘Repent and Believe the Gospel!’” – Monsignor Charles Pope
Jesus, if you knew who I was, you wouldn’t let me touch your feet. Yet it is because you know who I am that you
