Spiritual Experience & Disciplines

Louis waits in his room, settled in his black wheelchair, back and head very straight. He hardly moves, yet he embodies the exact opposite of inertia. Louis lives, and lives fully. Growing up with disability You’d think life had been rough on him, or even

A religious community of 14 Discalced Carmelite nuns has moved from a busy street in Buffalo, New York, where their order has lived for more than a century, to the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, in pursuit of “silence and solitude.” “Prayerful greetings from sunny

You have died: to what? To sin. You have died to it by baptism, by repentance, and by the profession of a Christian life. You have died to sin, but how then can “we who died to sin still live in it?” (Rom. 6:2). We must

Celebrated annually on Feb. 2nd, the World Day for Consecrated Life is intended to “help the entire Church to esteem ever more greatly the witness of those persons who have chosen to follow Christ by means of the practice of the evangelical counsels,” as Pope

With the Michigan Wolverines’ College National Championship victory not far behind us, and Super Bowl LVIII around the corner, I decided to rewatch a favorite football film. I’ve probably watched Lloyd Bacon’s 1940 classic, Knute Rockne: All American, five or six times! Starring Pat O’Brien, Gale Page,

With its dedication to the Holy Souls, the month of November sees Catholics throughout the world turning out into their cemeteries to offer prayers and Masses on behalf of our beloved dead. The peaceful flicker of candlelight dancing over the tombs reminds us of the

King David had a brilliant idea to build a temple for the ark of the Lord. He knew it was not right for him to be in his palace while the ark of the Lord was in a tent. The timing also seemed right, “King