So Much More than a Bible Study.
Have you ever considered that your day-to-day struggles are, at their core, timeless and universal? Though your challenges are deeply personal, they are also deeply human, and God has provided workable solutions for you through the teachings of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church. [...]
[…] of fish ever could. The song "Give Me Jesus" by Fernando Ortega comes to mind, and the refrain echoes throughout the song: "You can have all this world, but give me Jesus." Simon Peter didn't just see Jesus and leave everything behind. He had a true encounter with the Divine, and that changed everything. […]
[…] a ruler. The wise men were truly wise, for they recognized Jesus as more than a human baby—He was the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the One the world had been waiting for. How else does one respond to the presence of God but fall to their knees? In total transparency, […]
[…] dash around from here to there, it is often with good intentions that I fall into the lie that I will have all the time in the world for Jesus just as soon as I get my other stuff done. Fun fact: Jesus doesn’t care about my other stuff, and other stuff never gets […]
[…] my heart. In my imagination, I am always about eight years old—the sweet reminder of who I forever am in God’s eyes—His little girl. Raised on the world’s lie that “you are what you produce,” getting off the gerbil wheel of activity was difficult—ask my spiritual director. She just about had to tie me […]
[…] filled with eager anticipation as we prepare to enter into the crux of the Paschal mystery? Or perhaps, does a week called holy feel overwhelming amidst a world that seems far from it? Is your heart weighed down by burdens? Is the thought of entering into Jesus’ suffering unimaginable because you are on your […]
[…] anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3). Thus, in the midst of our Good Fridays, when the world is dark, when our cross seems too heavy to bear, when our suffering is excruciating, and when it appears that death has won—we must harken back […]
[…] to break his power over us, we couldn’t. The darkness seemed to have won. We were stuck in the bondage of unclean spirits that prowled about the world, seeking to ruin us. And then Jesus, having been given all authority on heaven and earth (Matthew 28:18), came onto the scene. He was the light […]
[…] be a distortion of power that would lead Jesus to His death. Yet, His call to dual citizenship—obedience to earthly and heavenly authority—still stands. So, in a world that hates submission to authority, where people misuse their dominion more often than not, how do we answer this call? First, we answer this call by […]
[…] your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9) The sovereignty of God is comforting when we think about how He created everything and sustains the world around us. It's easy for us to believe that He is in control of things “out there.” It’s when His sovereignty intersects our own lives—when it […]
Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 16:13–20 As I write this, I’m sitting on the banks of a river in West Virginia. We come here every year. Rising twelve feet from the middle of the river is a massive rock, seventy feet long by fifty feet wide. My kids and husband like to […]
