Today’s Reflection

If Christ be not risen, our faith is in vain (I Corinthians 15:14). But he is risen. The tomb is empty. . .It is the emptiness that matters. He is not here. He has risen. All the chambers of my heart, of my being, need to be emptied, even of beautiful images, of holy images,…

I am on the road towards the Holy in which I am already rooted. I abide in that towards which I constantly journey. On the one hand, I have not yet reached the goal of my pilgrimage, which is God, but on the other hand, God is not really far from any one of us:…

For the Christian living in the world, real prayer is that which goes before action, and is its necessary concomitant. Human action is for God, what water is in baptism, and bread in the Eucharist; the material for divine operation. We cannot do without prayer, but it must be prolonged in action. I ought to…

Worldly people have not the Holy Spirit, or if they have, it is only for a moment . . . The noise of the world drives Him away. A Christian who is led by the Holy Spirit has no difficulty in leaving the goods of this world, to run after those of heaven; he knows…

God himself says: I have loved thee with an everlasting love . . . He is our Savior; that is something that must never be forgotten. And it is as our Savior, that he enters into partnership with us. In fact, it is by that very partnership that he saves us. He comes to us…

The study of inspired Scripture is the primary way to learn what our duty is in life. In it, we find not only instruction about conduct, but also accounts of the lives of blessed men and women. . . If we devote ourselves to imitating these saints, then no matter which virtue we may feel…

Being holy means living exactly as our Father in heaven wants us to live. You will say that it is difficult. It is. The ideal is a very high one. And yet it is also easy. It is within our reach. When a person becomes ill, there may be no appropriate medicine. But in supernatural…

Jesus, our Savior, true God and true Man, must be the ultimate end of all our devotions. He’s the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End of everything. In him alone dwells the entire fullness of the Divinity and the complete fullness of grace, virtue, and perfection. In him alone we’ve been blessed…

The promised land, brimming with delights, is a scriptural metaphor for God himself and for the transfigured existence of man with God. God draws us through the desert of this life, to himself. He stands at the far side of the desert experience, as the risen Jesus stood in the dawn light on the shore…

Place your entire physical and spiritual welfare in God’s hands. Abandon to the fatherly concerns of his divine providence every care for your health, reputation, property, and business; for those near to you; for your past sins; for your soul’s progress in virtue and love of him; for your life, death and especially your salvation…