A Word to Enkindle: Can the Church Save Marriage?
Marriage is not a private achievement but an adventure unfolding under God.
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: Judgment
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
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
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
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.