March 21, 2021 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
I am not a psychologist in the modern technical sense of the term. I have no training in matters dealing with the brain or nervous system, and I possess only a rudimentary knowledge of human biochemistry. But I do love uncovering the etymologies of words, and therefore I can say that I aim to be a psychologist in the original sense of the Greek word psyche: the animating principle of the whole person, which we translate as “soul.” Saint Gregory the Great emphatically declares, in his influential “Pastoral Rule,” that the proper nurturing, challenging, and encouraging of souls is the great duty of priests, since “the care of souls is the art of arts.”
February 10, 2021 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
by Fr. Thomas for the Texas Catholic
January 8, 2021 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
The Church regularly commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the heart of the Christmas season, just three weeks after his birth.
November 28, 2020 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
Christians look to the light of Christ, the true light that knows no darkness or extinguishing, to irradiate the gloom of their own suffering.
October 31, 2020 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
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.
October 12, 2020 | A Word to Enkindle, Fr. Thomas Esposito
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.
