A Word to Enkindle: True Enlightenment about the End
by Fr. Thomas for the Texas Catholic
A Word to Enkindle: Grace at Work in Infant Baptism
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: The Noble Truth of Advent
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: Cyrus and the Lord of History
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: The relationship between laughter and grace
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.
A Word to Enkindle: Compline and the Good Night
Among the treasures contained in our monastic hours of prayer, none is more precious to me than Compline, also known as Night Prayer.