“Coats of arms,” also known as heraldry designs, came into general use among European nobility in the early 12th century. Initially, hera...

Almost any Christian can relate the story of Pentecost: “a strong driving wind” [Acts 2:2a] filling the house and “tongues as of fire” [A...

Today, May 1st, begins the month of Mary, the Blessed Mother of Jesus. People with troubled hearts have turned to Mary for comfort and en...

In John’s Gospel, we hear that on the first Sunday after Easter, Jesus entrusted His Apostles with not just proclaiming God’s Divine Merc...

The cool, pre-dawn air was heavy with the fragrance of the snow-white narkis (narcissus) flowers that covered much of the east slope of t...

In these times when social distancing and isolation are getting many of us down, when it all just seems to be “too much;” I’d like to sug...

With all the anxiety-feeding hype surrounding us, and the public health guidelines changing daily, I was losing sight of the fact that th...

At Jesus’ Ascension, as He was preparing His disciples and eleven remaining Apostles for His departure, He instructed them to "Go into th...

It was winter, 1917, just outside Cairo, Egypt. A young Bible School teacher who was serving as a chaplain to the British troops in North...

The wrapping paper has all been bundled up; friends and family have headed home; the kitchen has been rescued and restored; our sense of ...

The tradition in America of reserving the fourth Thursday in November for giving thanks to God for our blessings dates back to the days o...

Today is All Souls Day, the day on which we remember our loved ones who have gone before us. Our ability to remember is one of God’s grea...

You are so special to God that, at the moment of His choosing, He breathed life into you, and you became a human being. It was then that ...

Shortly after the first Christian missionaries came, in 1834, to the region in northern India known as the Punjab, two monks were traveli...

Exhausted, they hurried away from the city and into the morning sunrise. They needed a place to hide; they could just see their village o...

Remember, O most compassionate Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sough...

It had snowed during the night and Ben sensed a sacred silence in the air as he looked out the window. He’s served as the only teacher in...

There’s an old Hebrew saying that goes: “The stranger at your door is a guest sent by God.” That saying has its roots in the passage from...

For many of us, life seems a lot more difficult these days. Some of it, of course, is because we’ve aged. But, life itself seems much mor...

There's an inspiring connection between the Parable of the Mustard Seed and the origins of Father's Day. Let me explain.