Carlo shows us that you can live for God even in this modern era. He reminds us that you can become a saint without founding a religious order or dying as a martyr or doing something that seems remarkable and significant. You can become a saint by living the life God invites you to live.

The first few weeks of Ordinary Time occur during the winter, until it is interrupted by Lent and the Easter season. After the Easter season closes with Pentecost, Ordinary Time resumes and carries on through late spring until early winter with the beginning of Advent.

It’s no secret that in recent years many Catholics have absented themselves from the Eucharist and there are many reasons for this. But none of these reasons outweighs the depth, the beauty and the reality of Christ’s Presence and his power to change our lives by his transformative love.

We are left to ponder the notion of “diabolical disorientation” while being forced to remind church leaders that art — even the greatest works of artistic expression — can never be more important than people.

I don’t know all that our children will grow to be. I can’t guess what they will encounter in life. I don’t know everything they will achieve.

What implications does our round-the-clock world have on our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being?

Parents around the world make sacrifices for their children every second of every day.

This week we marked four years as finch owners, and I am struck by how much has changed for our family over that time.

To sway is to move to meet the needs of others. Isn’t this the heart of family life?

The church teaches that deliberately and purposefully seeking to separate the procreative and unitive aspects of the marital act is intrinsically wrong.