God’s appearance to us, whether to the Magi in first century Palestine or today wherever we are, often doesn’t take away our suffering. But it reminds us that God is present to us precisely amid that hardship.

Jordan

Denari Duffner

God’s appearance to us, whether to the Magi in first century Palestine or today wherever we are, often doesn’t take away our suffering. But it reminds us that God is present to us precisely amid that hardship.

Families may look different, with different dynamics. Their culture and their traditions and their flavor are as varied as the stars in the sky. Yet the core of the family is the same throughout time, and that is love.

Kathleen

Brown

Families may look different, with different dynamics. Their culture and their traditions and their flavor are as varied as the stars in the sky. Yet the core of the family is the same throughout time, and that is love.

God is with us always, and God dwells with us most perfectly in the ones who need us.

Cecilia

González-Andrieu

God is with us always, and God dwells with us most perfectly in the ones who need us.

Heed your dreams, like Joseph did. Be a prophetic dreamer. Trust the vision God plants in you, and dare to act on it, with courage, tenderness, and fire.

Joanna

Arellano-Gonzalez

Heed your dreams, like Joseph did. Be a prophetic dreamer. Trust the vision God plants in you, and dare to act on it, with courage, tenderness, and fire.

In and through the incarnation, divine communication is embodied in the Logos, expressed in our diverse languages, lived in our different bodies.

Carmen M.

Nanko-Fernández

In and through the incarnation, divine communication is embodied in the Logos, expressed in our diverse languages, lived in our different bodies.

She is a woman of strength, trampling injustice beneath her feet, lifting up the lowly, and casting the mighty from their thrones.

Nichole M.

Flores

She is a woman of strength, trampling injustice beneath her feet, lifting up the lowly, and casting the mighty from their thrones.

This Advent, when fear walks our streets againand raids attempt to silence hope, our practices must become acts of justice.

Yolanda

Chávez

This Advent, when fear walks our streets againand raids attempt to silence hope, our practices must become acts of justice.

What new blossom of hope will you offer this season of Advent?

Carmen

Ramos

What new blossom of hope will you offer this season of Advent?

Advent is not about waiting for God to act. Advent is about waking up to where God is already at work and joining God in that work.

Angélica N.

Quińónez, EdD

Advent is not about waiting for God to act. Advent is about waking up to where God is already at work and joining God in that work.

Jesus offers a paradise of mercy that extends even to those whom we may not think deserve it.

Krisanne

Vaillancourt Murphy

Jesus offers a paradise of mercy that extends even to those whom we may not think deserve it.

Dorothy witnessed to the belief that all creation is interconnected and innately good…every human person, the rainforest and all the universe is destined for goodness.

Sister Judi

Clemens, SNDdeN

Dorothy witnessed to the belief that all creation is interconnected and innately good…every human person, the rainforest and all the universe is destined for goodness.

Our most natural orientation is towards goodness, a goodness that produces abundant fruit...

Joanna

Williams

Our most natural orientation is towards goodness, a goodness that produces abundant fruit...

Can you trust that your soul is in God’s hands and live like you believe it?

Marie Philomène

Péan, D.Min.

Can you trust that your soul is in God’s hands and live like you believe it?

Each of us is called to holiness, to a way of life that manifests the diversity of gifts and a spirituality that bears fruit in the beatitudes which turn the world upside down.

Elvira

Ramirez

Each of us is called to holiness, to a way of life that manifests the diversity of gifts and a spirituality that bears fruit in the beatitudes which turn the world upside down.

God desires relationship, to be able to draw near, and this desire is certainly not dependent upon a grand presentation of one's most pious actions or traits.

Graceann F.

Beckett

God desires relationship, to be able to draw near, and this desire is certainly not dependent upon a grand presentation of one's most pious actions or traits.