Prayer & Scripture
How My Morning Coffee Transformed My Spiritual Life
How do you pray? For the first 18 years of my life, it was mostly rehearsed prayers I learned in school or from my parents. For the next five years or so, I didn’t really pray at all. Even in Mass,...
Culture
Book Review: The World, The Flesh and Fr. Smith
It’s rare to find a novel that captures with realism and detail the interior life of a Catholic whose heart and imagination is steeped in Catholicism. More often than not, fiction falls short of...
Personal Faith
Building Daily Practices for My Life
A mentor once told me, “you build a way of life and then the way of life builds you.” He told me this after I left home for the first time, and was trying to figure out how to find a new rhythm for...
Parenting
3 Ways to Keep the Faith This School Year
“Here, try these on and see what you think.” Handing a pair of red gym shoes to my oldest, I fully expected him to quickly lace them up and take off running through the store in his typical all-boy...