Month: January 2022

Each one of us who has been Baptized is encouraged today to remember this: that, although the Ritual of Baptism is never repeated, the “process” of becoming a Christian is not just a once for all event. Conversion itself means …

St. Francis de Sales was ordained a priest in 1593, after Protestantism had had a generation or two to gain a foothold in Europe. He was assigned to pastoral duties in Geneva and dedicated himself to preaching, hearing confessions, and …

El Papa Francisco instituyó el “Domingo de la Palabra de Dios” con la intención de que se celebrara todos los años el tercer domingo del Tiempo Ordinario (hoy), como respuesta a un deseo del Pueblo de Dios trasladado al Papa …

The Gospel for this weekend’s Mass is taken from two places in St. Luke’s Gospel. We start with part of chapter 1, but then we leap forward to chapter 4. We leapfrog, so to speak, from the opening paragraph of …

The Church’s pro-life convictions are a response of love for both mothers and their children in the womb, for fathers, and for the wholeness and holiness of family life. The Church’s teaching proclaims a message of life, reminding us that …

St. Agnes was martyred at the end of the persecution of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, probably in the early years of the 4th century. She is thought to have been as young as 12 years of age. Although few reliable …

Pocos santos han sido tan populares en Roma como la niña de doce o trece años, Santa Inés. En un tiempo de masivas defecciones de la fe, en el año 305 aguantó la tortura del martirio con sano idealismo y …

Jealousy can be a terrible thing. It is closely linked with one’s own insecurity and difficulty in accepting what one is. It is very difficult to see others surpassing the skills of which we are proud. It is difficult to …

En los Evangelios en el Nuevo Testamento de la Biblia, hay muchos momentos en los que Jesús prohíbe que los demonios expulsados (y otras personas más) lo diesen a conocer. Es que en Jesús hay que creer después de un …

Algunas veces reducimos nuestra religión a un asunto de leyes casuísticas: ¿Se permite trabajar en domingo? ¿Cuándo llega a ser pecado mortal, si llego tarde a la Misa? ¿Cometo pecado si no alzo mis manos al rezar el Padre Nuestro? …