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The saving gift of fatherhood
I expected fatherhood to change the routines of my life. Everyone told me it would. Goodbye, sleep. Hello, collapsing in exhaustion at 8 p.m. What I did not suppose was the way fatherhood would be an occasion for conversion.
Seven surprising places to find God this summer
Here are seven places you might delight to encounter God with your family this summer.
Going buggy with Brood X
Brood X is to the normal summer cicada what King Kong is to Tarzan’s Cheeta: something else entirely.
What my father taught me from his deathbed about fatherhood, faith and forgiveness
Dad’s role as catechist was one he passed over for much of his life. But his final sacramental journey was one of the greatest educations I have ever received in Catholicism.
The brave love of fostering and adoption
As Catholics, we know that the family is the basic building block of society, the “domestic church,” where children find love, stability, and are nurtured to grow to their full potential.
Overcoming that empty feeling
Detachment is imperative to becoming our essential self. Its reward is joy that emanates from responding to God’s loving generosity planted in us.
The quest to be ‘somebody’ online forgets who we really are
Our dignity comes from the fact that God has created us and we have a soul that is cherished by him. The fact that young people seek YouTube stardom so passionately should be a wake-up call to the church.
The grace to bloom where we’re planted
His life was enriched by a community that chose him, not the other way around. It took an investment of time — well more than a decade — to reap the benefits.
What will we sing in heaven?
If we allow the graces of the cross to take away all in our lives that is not of God, we will eventually be ready to celebrate the perpetual Easter of heaven, in which we will sing “Holy, holy, holy,” and “Glory to God in the highest,” and “Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia,” without end, rejoicing with all the angels and saints in God’s presence forever.
A look at 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines — and counting!
The quincentenary that marks the introduction of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines cannot go unnoticed, given the impact and influence that Catholicism has and continues to have in the everyday lives of Filipinos.