According to Feeding America, a nationwide network of food banks (like the St. Louis Area Foodbank) and pantries, last year their network of over 200 food banks and meal programs sourced, received and distributed more than seven billion pounds of food. They hope to...
God’s mercy is freely given – perhaps the deepest meaning of the cross. The only “barrier” to God’s mercy is our willingness to allow, accept, and welcome it. Yet, this “barrier” proves significant to so many, who have misunderstood mercy as somehow a response to some intention or behavior on our part, rather than as intrinsic to the Triune God, whose very nature it is to pour forth in love. We who...
BeSMART, an organization that promotes awareness that secure gun storage—storing firearms unloaded, locked, and separate from ammunition—can save children’s lives, is sponsoring SMART Week from August 25th to 29th. This is important because...
Centering Prayer is an apophatic form of prayer – prayer without the use of words and images. There are also cataphatic forms of prayer, which involve the use of words and images as part of the substance of prayer. Prayer forms such as Lectio Divina, the Rosary, and probably most other common prayers in recent history are ...
A Book Review
For those wanting to enhance their spiritual awareness and response to the world we live in, I recommend “We Make the Road by Walking” by Brian D. McLaren. Brian is an author, speaker, activist and public theologian as well as...
The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN), honoring the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, quotes him as saying, “Just as the [people] of the world love and seek with such great diligence honors, fame, and esteem on earth—as the world teaches them—so those ...
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has recently addressed the passage of HR 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”. He lamented the failure of the law to help families in need and to change course on aspects of the bill that fail the poor and vulnerable, making ...
It is a testament to our incarnate nature that our spiritual lives and prayer practices impact our physical bodies. Anxiety and joy, spiritual wounds and healing a carried in the body – as the shallow breath of excitement, the sweaty palms of nervousness, and the ...