A Word to Enkindle

A Word to Enkindle: The way of nature

A Word to Enkindle, March 19, 2021

Children are increasingly growing up among adults in politics, entertainment and academia who encourage them, even well before puberty, to adopt sexual profiles that conflict with Church teaching, such as transgenderism. This is confusing for those who trust the Biblical understanding of God’s design for human sexuality, according to which the only normative sexual relationship is the one between a husband and a wife who lovingly unite their complementary identities for lasting friendship, collaboration and new life.

A Word to Enkindle: True Enlightenment about the End

A Word to Enkindle, February 10, 2021

by Fr. Thomas for the Texas Catholic

A Word to Enkindle: Can the Church Save Marriage?

A Word to Enkindle, January 22, 2021

Marriage is not a private achievement but an adventure unfolding under God.

A Word to Enkindle: Grace at Work in Infant Baptism

A Word to Enkindle, January 08, 2021

The Church regularly commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the heart of the Christmas season, just three weeks after his birth.

A Word to Enkindle: Judgment

A Word to Enkindle, December 16, 2020

In Advent we meditate on the coming of Christ. Traditionally, we contemplate not only his coming at Christmas, but also his second coming at the end of time – his coming “in glory to judge the living and the dead” (as we say in the Nicene Creed).

A Word to Enkindle: The Noble Truth of Advent

A Word to Enkindle, November 28, 2020

Christians look to the light of Christ, the true light that knows no darkness or extinguishing, to irradiate the gloom of their own suffering.

A Word to Enkindle: Stacy Trasancos: Chemist, Mother and Synthesizer of Faith and Science

A Word to Enkindle, November 14, 2020

I recently read a great book about Catholicism and science, “Particles of Faith” by Stacy A. Trasancos. It seems suited for anyone interested in the topic.

A Word to Enkindle: Cyrus and the Lord of History

A Word to Enkindle, October 31, 2020

If Cyrus the pagan could be an unknowing evangelist for the Lord, the ultimate sovereign of history, then we must trust that Jesus can lead us, exiles in this valley of tears, to a beautiful end and ultimate triumph beyond anything we could imagine at present.

A Word to Enkindle: Examining Our Conscience Before Voting

A Word to Enkindle, October 16, 2020

May we all allow our consciences to be challenged before voting. The spiritual life stagnates in self-righteous and ignorant condemnations. It blossoms through humble self-examination and a readiness to follow God into whatever future may come.

A Word to Enkindle: The relationship between laughter and grace

A Word to Enkindle, October 12, 2020

The Swiss theologian Karl Barth is the author of a line that has always fascinated me: in the realm of nature, “Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God” that we possess. I would like to explain why I think he is absolutely correct.