It could happen that sometimes you feel tepid or lukewarm in your relationship with God, praying becomes tiresome and...
Lent
The Hidden Potential of Suffering
Lent is right around the corner — have you thought about what you might give up for Lent? Chocolate, coffee, your...
The Beating of a Consecrated Heart
Recently I find myself returning to the same question: What does it mean to have a consecrated heart? I myself am not...
Behold your Mother
Saturday is traditionally held as a day of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and today on Holy Saturday, this day...
The Goodness of Good Friday
On this Good Friday, there is much goodness for which we can give thanks. This is the only day of the year in which...
Deliver Us From Evil
When I pray the words “deliver us from evil”, I often think of a young man named David who made a courageous choice in...
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
I met Nino Baglieri for the first time in the spring of 1994 during a parish mission in Sicily. He was lying on his...
Compelled By Force, He Remains For Love
“And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him. And they led him...
Friends on the Way to Suffering
The thousand faces of love (Lk 23:28) (Jn 19:25) Jesus’ friends do not necessarily take away His pain, rather, when...
In God All is Love and Also Pain
Way ahead of me in faith and in years, G. was a dear friend of mine who liked to make me happy taking me to visit some...