Newsflash!  Sin doesn’t change God; it changes you.  You don’t have the power to change God!  Sin is like wandering into a cave that looked inviting but turns out dark and cold and empty.  The sun is still shining, bright and warm, but you can’t feel it.  Confession is coming out of the cave and […]

Noticias! Sin no cambia a Dios, sino que te cambia. Tú no tienes el poder de cambiar a Dios! El pecado es como vagar en una cueva que parecía invitar pero que resulta oscura y fría y vacía. El sol sigue brillar, luminoso y cálido, pero no puedes sentirlo. La confesión es salir de la […]

“The cross … speaks and never ceases to speak of God the Father, who is absolutely faithful to His eternal love for man. … Believing in the crucified Son means ‘seeing the Father,’ means believing that love is present in the world and that this love is more powerful than any kind of evil” (Pope […]

Hidden in today’s gospel of the Sower is an unspoken but important teaching: seeds cannot bear fruit unless they’re sown. We must go out as sowers, but our task is not to make the seeds grow but simply to sow them —lots of them. The need to see results is just vanity; discouragement just pride. […]

“Blessed are the poor in spirit” simply means “Blessed are they who only need God.” It doesn’t mean that we can’t love people, things, or events; It means we purge away our attachment to them, our desire for self-gratification in them. It means we love them within God, not alongside Him or instead of Him.