Category: Sacraments

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What It Means to Live a Worthy Life

On Father’s Day this year, I failed to send a card to my dad and it was my mom who made it abundantly clear she wasn’t happy.  A few years ago, the unhappiness was about a missed card on her birthday.  

Some would say, “What’s the fuss?  It’s just a card!  It usually ends up in the clutter pile anyways.”  True.  But apparently for a lot of people, it’s more than just a piece of card stock with sentimental writings inside; it’s a tangible symbol of love, friendship and care for another person.

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Feast of Corpus Christi: A Reflection on the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist

Food.

Practically every event or celebration I can think of revolves around it.  Even when there is no celebrating, we still need it.  Our earthly life depends on it.  We can’t get very far in this life without it. 

Our spiritual life needs food too.  The spiritual food that nourishes our soul is found in the consecrated bread and wine of the Holy Eucharist, “the source and summit of the Christian life” as the Church teaches (CCC 1324).  Like our earthly food, we can’t get very far in our spiritual journey without God’s life within us. 

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Seeking God’s Refuge in a Pandemic Pandemonium

Lent had always been the one season of the Church year I looked forward to with such anticipation.  This year, as before, I was intent on accompanying Jesus into His Passion, Death, and rising with Him in His glorious Resurrection on Easter morning.  Not to mention welcoming a new goddaughter at the Easter vigil.

Then the pandemic stepped in and uprooted everything.

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