Wednesday, February 17, 2016

How to Love People You Can't Stand

 Who are the people with whom you don’t want to breathe the same air?  On my list are the ferocious abortion advocates that drip hatred at the prolife movement. They tempt me to wish for a loophole on the Christian obligation to love everyone. “This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I love you” (John 15:12).  But how can we possess that kind of love?

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Lent with Mary


Our goal during Lent is to become intimately united with Jesus. No earthly being was more closely united to him than his mother.  She has been involved in every aspect of Christianity since Jesus was conceived.