The Fast That Pleases God
Are you wondering what to fast from this Lent – sweets? alcohol, or just simply eating less? This kind of fasting has its place, but if you truly want to discover what fasting is especially meant to achieve, that is,...
Author: Tony Magliano
Reflections on Pope Francis’ 2024 World Day of Peace message
Fast-moving advancements in science and technology grab our attention, spark fascination, and receive automatic acceptance within our modern societies which crave new things, quick results, and instant gratification. Within such an atmosphere there is often little time given to examine...
A Christmas Message from the Heavens
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and began circling the moon – the first time in history for humans to visit another world. That evening the crew’s astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell...
In Serving the Poor, We Encounter The King
When I began writing this column, it was the Solemnity of Christ the King; an awesome reminder that while kingdoms and kings of all sorts, up and down the centuries, come and go, our Lord Jesus Christ is King of the...
Remembering the end of ‘the war to end all wars’ – the right way!
On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918 an armistice was declared, effectively ending one of the worst conflicts in history – World War I. But had the Central Powers and the opposing Allied...
Making a Difference: Making Abortion Unthinkable
Think of a newborn baby. In your mind’s eye marvel at the beauty, the complexity, the mystery of this tiny human being. And consider that this baby just didn’t magically somehow appear at birth, but, rather, was exquisitely knitted together...
Pope Francis’s urgent plea on behalf of planet Earth
Reflecting on the worsening climate change crisis in the eight years since he wrote his environmental encyclical letter Laudato Si’ — concerning the urgent importance of caring for our common earth-home — Pope Francis laments, “I have realized that our...
God’s Challenging Call – Are You Up For It?
You may not think about it. You may not pray about it. You may not even know about it. But like it or not, if you’ve been baptized, God is calling you to be a prophet! “A prophet? Who me?”...
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