via the Vatican: God saved us by serving us. We often think we are the ones who serve God. No, he is the one who freely chose to serve us, for he loved us first. It is difficult to love and not be loved in return. And it is even more difficult to serve if… Read More Pope Francis: Life is of No Use if Not Used to Serve Others
Millennial writer Patrick Manning writes: This moment is unlike anything that most of us have ever experienced. The tally of sick and deceased mounts higher every day. We turn on the news or look out our windows to see empty streets and darkened buildings. We are cut off from one another, passing our days in… Read More 5 Tips for Finding God During the Corona Crisis
via the Vatican: Like a new flame this Good News springs up in the night: the night of a world already faced with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family. In this night, the Church’s voice rings out: “Christ, my hope, has arisen!” (Easter Sequence). This is a… Read More Pope Francis on Easter: We Need Solidarity Not Indifference, Self-centeredness, Division, and Forgetfulness
Today is a day that Christians historically have remembered the last meal that Jesus spent with his disciples before his crucifixion. The account of this meal in the Gospel of John is filled with some amazing moments. Perhaps the most powerful for me is the moment where Jesus kneels down and begins to wash his… Read More What Success and Leadership Look Like in the Kingdom of God.
via Vatican news: The Pope said he was thinking about children and young people stuck at home, those who have to face these difficult moments alone, and the elderly. “I have in my heart all the families,” he said, “especially those who have a loved one who is sick or who have unfortunately experienced mourning… Read More Pope Francis: Creativity of Love Can Overcome Isolation
via the Vatican: For weeks now it has been evening. Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken over our lives, filling everything with a deafening silence and a distressing void, that stops everything as it passes by; we feel it in the air, we notice in people’s… Read More Highlights of the Pope’s Special Urbi et Orbi Blessing
Check out these recent articles on the coronavirus, solidarity, and the common good: Spare a Moment for Sorrow by John Dickerson: “Ideally a public figure would use his platform, as heroic leaders have in the past, to set this tone. In the absence of that, perhaps we can all use our platforms, whether they be… Read More Coronavirus, Solidarity, and the Common Good
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