The church felt warm and welcoming on the feast of the Holy Family this past December. Before Mass began, I offered my usual prayer to be open to the graces of the liturgy. Soon after, my heart ...

How does reading the epistles as caring letters help you receive God’s encouragement? How will you share the hope of God’s caring letters today?

The Lectionary texts for the Sundays of Lent follow a somewhat different pattern from that of Ordinary Time. The series of Old Testament readings develops the history of our salvation with reference ...

Fr. Matthew Russell, S.J. (1834-1912) intended to found a devotional magazine with the name Catholic Ireland in 1873, but it emerged as a literary journal named The Irish Monthly. Russell, who edited ...