Focus

  • Vatican issues working document for Synod of Bishops on the family

    Jul 05, 2014

    The Synod of Bishops has released the instrumentum laboris, or working document, for its upcoming 3rd extraordinary general assembly, which will take place from October 5 to 19.

  • Celebrating Bible Sunday (July 13, 2014) The Evergreen Priceless Treasure

    Jul 05, 2014

    When Christ the Lord commissioned the Apostles to preach to all people that Gospel which is the source of all saving truth and moral teaching, He gave them this assurance: I am with you always; yes to the end of time (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:20).

  • On being perpetually distracted

    Jul 05, 2014

    There’s a story in the Hindu tradition that runs something like this: God and a man are walking down a road.

  • Food For Thought

    Jul 05, 2014

    A quick look at natural landscapes reveals numerous examples of the importance of darkness for life.

  • When darkness falls: Faith and depression

    Jul 05, 2014

    You have just experienced the joyful season of Easter, but you feel as if a dark cloud is hanging over you instead of Christ’s light.

  • Blessing the darkness

    Jul 05, 2014

    Light is one of the most pervasive and important symbols in Judaism and Christianity. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, describes the first act of creation with these words: “Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good.”

  • Food For Thought

    Jun 27, 2014

    Last year, Pope Francis said Pope Paul VI’s document, “Evangelii Nuntiandi,” or “Evangelization in the Modern World” was one of the “greatest pastoral documents that has ever been written to this day.”

  • Don’t wait for a title, or more knowledge, to share the good news

    Jun 27, 2014

    We’ve all heard it: “Evangelism? That’s not my charism, not my personality.” Others make the excuse: “I need more education first,” or “I evangelize by example.”

  • A modern, decades-old document on evangelization

    Jun 27, 2014

    In October, when the Synod of Bishops meets in Rome to discuss the issues facing the modern family, Pope Francis will beatify one of his predecessors, Pope Paul VI.

  • Celebrating Bible Sunday (July 13, 2014) The Evergreen Priceless Treasure

    Jun 27, 2014

    Who can decide or guarantee the authenticity of the correct interpretation of the Scriptures? Down through the centuries, people from various Christian denominations and religions and even atheists have offered many versions of interpretation of the Scriptures.




Sunday Reflection

God is not like us

God is beyond us. That is what the readings point to this weekend. The fact that God is a mystery and beyond our thinking is not something that should frustrate or disappoint us but, rather, it should be a source of our hope and the ground that we walk on as Christians.

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