Why Mary's Tears Matter
Limbs stiff, heart broken, she stood and looked at the cross. Who knows pain as tender and poignant as a mother? Who knows suffering as a...
Road to Healing
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” ~ Ps. 51:7 He carried the bruised and beaten man...
Dry and Secular
C. S. Lewis was an atheist when he climbed aboard the train. The whistles blew, the train pulled forward, and the young scholar lit into...
Why Humility?
The devil was exasperated. As the story goes, St. Macarius was fasting in the desert, when the devil met him. The spirit complained,...
Detachment and Prayer
Life was good and prosperous and then everything fell apart. The Roman army swarmed into Jerusalem with spears and torches. The temple,...