Understanding pain

Understanding pain

When faced with pain, our natural reaction is to recoil from it and ask God why he allows it. Physical suffering can be difficult to endure, but we have to remind ourselves that God allows it for a reason. Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite monk of the 17th century,...
Eucharistic Youth Movement celebrates 105 years!

Eucharistic Youth Movement celebrates 105 years!

On the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Eucharistic Youth Movement, the youth branch of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, celebrated its 105th anniversary. Below is a video of an event that occurred on Sunday and a letter from Fr. Frederic Fornos, SJ,...
Prayer leads us to have a heart of tenderness

Prayer leads us to have a heart of tenderness

Pope Francis invites us to be an active Church in mission, to face the challenges of humanity and reach fearlessly “the peripheries—the human, cultural, and religious settings still foreign to the Gospel” ( Pope Video, October 2019 ). We must do this with faith and...
The joy you seek is within you

The joy you seek is within you

People have different types of memory. Some speak of auditory memory, because they identify better what they hear than what they see, while others focus on visual memory, because it is through sight that they best remember the events of their life. Others simply say...
June Pope Video – Compassion for the World

June Pope Video – Compassion for the World

Many people in the world are suffering, and not just due to the pandemic we’ve been experiencing. As Pope Francis said last month, people are also affected by other pandemics, such as “the pandemic of wars, hunger, and many others” (5/14/2020). What can we do? How can...