Spirituality

Scripture for Life: Finding and following our deepest desires will free us to follow the Lord, who was called insane and a lawbreaker — but was never accused of failing to love. 

The 2024 elections will be an intervention into our current divisive way of seeing. It intervenes, and whether it is successful in removing what has been blocking the clarity of our vision is still unknown.

"Miriam is a foremother and an example to women, to teach us how to sing joyfully, and to nurture others when our wells run dry, when we are most vulnerable and fragile," writes Sr. Helga Leija.

Haste and anxiety dehumanize us and prevent us from getting closer to God. Practicing patience reminds us to stop and take a deep breath to be physically, mentally and emotionally healthy and present each day.

A convert to Catholicism from Buddhism, Sr. Agnes Sasagawa, a member of the Institute of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist in Akita, Japan, experienced several apparently miraculous events centering on a statue of Mary from 1973 to 1981.

Look to Mary and seek the grace to live like her — always reaching out to others, walking through adverse times with utmost trust in God, and pondering the instances of life rather than fretting over them.

Is God calling us today to a particular mission? All that we need when being called is an empty and humbled heart that will be filled with faith and hope by the one who calls us.

Scripture for Life: This week's liturgy warns us that our expectations may be the greatest obstacle keeping us from knowing what God keeps offering us.