Focus on Faith

Stewardship is not a gift we give to God, but rather a gift God gives to us. Catholics have made the work of the church, Christ’s body, a priority in their lives.

Whenever I see people working in service jobs such as cooking in cafeterias, cleaning houses, mowing lawns, working in construction, doing janitorial work, and other work of this kind, I am often left to wonder, are they like my brother?

With personal private revelations, we always need to be aware of the possibility that a person could be mistaking their own opinion for God’s will.

Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada came from a family of Jews who converted to Catholicism. St. Teresa was canonized in 1622.

Have I found myself only doing or saying a thing simply so that others would notice? If I have, then I need to take another look at my heart and my motivations to make sure I am not merely pretending, to make sure I am not a hypocrite.

Irving Houle had prayed for, and apparently received throughout the last 16 years of his life, the privilege to share in Christ’s sufferings as a disciple in a particularly unique way; he apparently had the stigmata.

Lonliness can affect us in different ways. We feel restlessness despite experiencing intimacy, and we feel a nostalgia for a home we can never quite find.

How can the Catholic Church accompany those experiencing miscarriage and infant-loss?