Fasting to be the person God is calling
The Christian life and its spiritual practices are undertaken not for one’s own sake alone. They extend outward and lead toward others, whose lives may be complicated, painful.
Movies: Sonic the Hedgehog
NEW YORK (CNS) — Not that the intended core audience of children is likely to notice, but many of the adults who take them will find that there’s something oddly mechanical and even maladroit about “Sonic the Hedgehog” (Paramount).
Media mindfulness for a digital age
How can we integrate a reflective, spiritual life with all the media we consume and create?
State of the Campaign for July 2018
As a seminarian I used to try to envision what my life might look like when I became a priest.
Movies: Bennett’s War
NEW YORK (CNS) — Loosely based on the case histories of real-life wounded veterans, writer-director Alex Ranarivelo’s endearing sports drama “Bennett’s War” (Forrest) is a portrait of courage in the face of adversity.
This Lent, go without
I used to think that fasting was worthless. I would find reasons to excuse myself from the obligatory Lenten practice: low blood sugar, anemia, etc.
Following the light
Night was falling at the end of a gray day. A few dozen silent, shabby figures were sitting at round tables waiting.
Classical painting reminds us of Christ’s light
The scene is one you might share from your own memory. It is the image of a mother, father and two children delighting in the sweet innocence of an infant.
Ash Wednesday — a kick-start to holiness
When I was in college there was a group of students who didn’t always practice their faith, but when Ash Wednesday rolled around all decided to band together in giving up a few particular sins common among college students.
Christ the light of the world
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Advent is a time to watch and prepare for the coming of Christ just as vigilantly as we scan the skies for those first tentative signs that the days are slowly but surely getting longer.
