A Word to Enkindle

A Word to Enkindle: Stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic? Read!

A Word to Enkindle, April 19, 2020

As we move further into this global program of “social distancing” because of COVID-19, millions around the world are trying to figure out what to do with all the time they must now spend in isolation at home.

A Word to Enkindle: The faith of the first followers, and ours

A Word to Enkindle, April 10, 2020

We should offer hymns of thanks to the God who orchestrated all this for love of us.

A Word to Enkindle: Teachers and students, seize the moment!

A Word to Enkindle, April 07, 2020

What lessons can we learn at this time of distance learning?

A Word to Enkindle: Faith in the time of two quarantines

A Word to Enkindle, March 27, 2020

Let us, then, entrust our fears in prayerful silence to the divine Physician, who alone can calm our anxious hearts.

A Word to Enkindle: Fasting in the Rule of St. Benedict during Lent

A Word to Enkindle, March 21, 2020

Love fasting. Discern it well. Share it with those you can trust to tell you want they really think. And see you at Easter!

A Word to Enkindle: The faith of a Catholic woman in Auschwitz

A Word to Enkindle, March 06, 2020

Paraclete Press published the translation of a Jewish-Catholic woman’s experience in the death camps.

A Word to Enkindle: We are More than the Sum of our Parts

A Word to Enkindle, February 22, 2020

I recently finished a fascinating book by Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity, “The Brain that Changes Itself.”

A Word to Enkindle: Discussing Prudence, Providence and Proper Discernments

A Word to Enkindle, February 07, 2020

Focused reflection on this neglected virtue yields some fascinating and salutary insights.

A Word to Enkindle: Jägerstätter, a martyr for our times

A Word to Enkindle, January 22, 2020

The history of Bl. Jägerstätter is the story of someone who followed his conscience against all the currents in his society.

A Word to Enkindle: Rekindle our longing for the real presence of Christ

A Word to Enkindle, December 20, 2019

What is so important about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist?