The Key To Understanding The Mystery Of The Human Person

Today's Scripture reading is the key to understanding the mystery of the entire cosmos and the mystery of the human person. That may seem...

The Time Is Now

In today’s readings, we are reminded of the urgency of responding when we are convicted by God. The Lord sent Jonah to the people...

Cry Out In Hope

“When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted...

Have Patience With Yourself

It seems fitting that today’s first reading from Leviticus would fall at the beginning of the Lenten season. It is the Church’s gift to...

There is a wolf out there

Today is the Feast of the Chair of Peter. We celebrate the primacy of Peter and our first vicar left in charge of things...

The Devil Has No Chance

We open up our bibles, we open up today’s devotion, we open up our windows… and grace floods in. We open ourselves up to the...

What Blessedness Actually Means

We start as sinners, and Jesus makes us saints. We start inordinately attached to ourselves and to this world, and Jesus frees us from...

What Are You Fasting From?

Each of the readings today highlight the theme of fasting, which along with prayer and almsgiving, comprises the three-legged stool of Christian piety. Fasting...
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The Lord Gives Us A Choice Between Two Ways

Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute of Catholic Culture (ICC). The ICC offers free live (in-person and online)...

Today, Even Now, You Are Being Called

I love how the first reading begins today: "Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart." It's those first two...