God is love. He loved us first – and loves us forever. He knows us best, seeing deep within us to all we are and all we can be. He sees us and loves us fully. He holds us – and the past, present and future – in his hands.
Commentary
Wake up
Now more than ever, we must deepen the relationships around us, which afford us an opportunity to encounter God anew.
A new mom’s glimpse of the Father’s heart
Every step, every milestone, no matter how small, is such a joy because I know what it took for my son to get there. Every smile and every hug are a gift, and I’m keenly aware of this since it did not come naturally at first.
Counting blessings this Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is bound to be memorable, but not because of the global pandemic we’re all enduring. Rather, because of the immense gift that I have been given in our beautiful, healthy daughter.
Rediscovering baptism in plague time
Let me urge you again: make this time of plague and quarantine the occasion to dig the “Catholic paper” out of your records, find your baptismal certificate, and learn the date of your baptism. And then, with appropriate celebration, ponder just what happened to you that day.
The quarantine’s three lessons about the Church
So Catholics, don’t get discouraged. Rather, use this time of deprivation and abstention to awaken a deeper love for the Church in its Eucharistic, symbiotic, and incarnational distinctiveness.
Did Jesus have to die for our sins?/ Waiting for the right partner
Father Doyle fields questions on why Jesus died for our sins and waiting for the right marriage partner.
Five years after Laudato Si, and 50 after the first Earth Day
Let this five years’ marking of Laudato Si and 50 years’ celebration of Earth Day impel our desires to know and accept our sacred place like never before.
The legacy of St. John Paul II’s encyclical ‘Evangelium Vitae’ at 25
A culture of life is always within reach and is built one moment and decision at a time.
Sense of smell
John Garvey reflects on not having his sense of smell.
Lessons from the novel ‘The Plague’
When overcome with fear, do we pray to a merciful God or see God’s wrath punishing us?
A response to ‘We are an Easter people’
It is irresponsible to assert that we know enough about the virus to encourage, in good conscience, the sorts of decisions that could very well end up becoming matters of life and death.