Below is a simple, quick, easy-to-use guide for individuals or families to pray and reflect on the "O Antiphons" each day from December 17-23. 

Filling our children’s souls with good stories plays a key role in their formation. The kinds of stories our children encounter shape...

The Way of the Cross is the way of love.

Most of us did not grow up with specific training in the virtues. We were not given what authentic Christian communities have always seen as so vital to pass on from generation to generation: the great tradition on the virtuous life.

A friend of mine was in the sacristy of the church on his wedding day, waiting alone

Virtues are so much more than values. We can have the noblest of ideals and most sincere of intentions but still fall short of who we’d like to be.

Each December, we buy from some Benedictine sisters here in Colorado half a…

There is a journey God wants to take you on in marriage

In English, the word “stations” refers to places people stop as they wait for the next step in their journey

Throughout the centuries, Christians have longed to go to Jerusalem

How do you respond when “bad things” happen to you? When you experience disappointment or setbacks? When you are hurt by something someone said?

Is the Immaculate Conception just another example of Catholics exaggerating Mary’s role, putting her on par with Jesus?

How does a society decide whose “right” or whose “freedom of choice” will be protected?

The “Real Presence” of Jesus in the Eucharist is rooted in Christ’s own teachings

For many, the rosary is quite intimidating: “50 plus beads of prayers? Who has time for that?”

The problem is not simply that the world has lost the gospel. We have lost the most basic human values as well. We have lost what he calls “the art of living.”

Risen Jesus asked his disciple Peter this deeply personal question: “Do you love me?”

There are three kinds of friendship based on three kinds of affection that unite people.

I used to think that Mary was afraid at the sight of the angel. After all, if I were alone at my home in the middle of the day and suddenly an angel appeared to me, I’d probably be greatly troubled, too!

It’s a Wonderful Life so inspiring to generation after generation is that it showcases ordinary, everyday heroism