Category: Scriptures and Saints

What St. Mary Magdalene Teaches Us About Loving Through Grief

July 9, 2026

I know how I feel when I have been crying for days and am emotionally drained. I picture Mary Magdalene, exhausted from watching the Man who changed her life be brutally murdered. I’m sure she got little to no sleep the night before. Her eyes were probably swollen from crying. Her shoulders likely sagged under the weight of grief. Every step toward the tomb must have felt heavy. … More What St. Mary Magdalene Teaches Us About Loving Through Grief

Does God Love Me?

July 9, 2026

And Jesus Christ is only God’s love humanized, given to men in all possible ways, under all forms and conditions, to prove to him the love of his Creator. How can we doubt that God loves us when the Word has come to tell it to us by His speech, His eyes, His Heart, by everything that man can feel and understand? … More Does God Love Me?

An Easter People: Carrying the Joy and Hope of the Resurrection Through All of Life’s Challenges

July 9, 2026

For the Christian, there is no need to separate the grief from the joy. The same hands can hold both joy and grief simultaneously. That is what it means to be, as John Paul II said, “an Easter people”. But he didn’t say that famous line during Easter. He said it in a papal address in November. Easter is not limited to a day or even a Church season. There is no “this, then that,” or suffering then not suffering. But there is always hope in suffering because the Messiah suffered, too.  … More An Easter People: Carrying the Joy and Hope of the Resurrection Through All of Life’s Challenges

The Giver is More Precious Than All His Gifts: A Letter from St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

June 11, 2026

But I would weary you if I recounted all these things in detail, for God is an unfathomable abyss of every good. All my glory ought to consist, as He has taught me, in considering myself but a play thing to give pleasure to His adorable Heart, which is my whole treasure. I must confess that I have nothing but my Savior Jesus Christ. … More The Giver is More Precious Than All His Gifts: A Letter from St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

I Thought I Had More Time: What Mary Shows us About Loving and Letting Go

May 14, 2026

Mary understands. She raised her Son. She saw him in the ordinary. She saw him in the extraordinary. Then He was gone. She is the only human who exemplifies total and pure love, trust, and faith in God. Yet, she did not get a pass on suffering. She couldn’t stop it. She could only endure it and turn to God. … More I Thought I Had More Time: What Mary Shows us About Loving and Letting Go

The Gift of Lent

March 12, 2026

Just as a runner prepares for a race with practice, so Lent gives us an opportunity to practice suffering. As a runner subjects his body to the strain of pushing himself beyond what is comfortable in order to build up his endurance, so we practice self-denial even when it is unpleasant so that we may build up our perseverance for the sufferings of this life. … More The Gift of Lent

The Sufferings of Christ: A Proof of Love

March 12, 2026

How could Our Lord have better proved His love for us than by suffering so many pains and such contempt and by ending His life in bitter agony on the Cross? But alas, we have grown so accustomed to hear of the Incarnation and the Redemption, of a God born in a stable, a God that was scourged and crowned and crucified, that it makes but little impression on us. O holy faith, enlighten us that we may see what boundless love God has shown us in becoming man and dying on a cross. … More The Sufferings of Christ: A Proof of Love