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January 07, 2026

A Joy No One Can Take Away: Christian Hope Even in Grief

Just for today, allow yourself to be happy. Even if you feel that your grief...

December 2025

December 24, 2025

Do Reborn Babies Reveal Our Longing for the Baby Jesus?

When I first heard about reborn babies, I thought they were real infants who had...

May 2025

May 07, 2025

Can Your Sins Be Forgiven Even Before Confession?

St. Faustina has a very remarkable statement about the dying in her diary: “God’s mercy...

January 2025

January 29, 2025

6 Things Christians Shouldn’t Say to People Who Are Grieving

It is a part of our Christian faith to believe in the afterlife. Ours is...

January 15, 2025

How Would Our Relationships Change In Heaven?

Have you ever wondered how our human relationships would change in heaven? If you’re a...

November 2024

November 27, 2024

Does Christianity Put Too Much Emphasis on Suffering?

Every Christian knows the value of suffering. One may not know it by heart, but...

November 13, 2024

Reflections for Our Time on the 7 Sorrows of Mary

Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Our Blessed Mother allows us to share in the...

October 2024

October 30, 2024

Why There Will Always Be Sorrow in Our Christian Life

There will always be a kind of sorrow in our Christian life. For us Catholics,...

February 2024

February 28, 2024

This Is What Euthanasia Does to Hope

Who can live without hope? We need it each day to give us the strength...

October 2023

October 18, 2023

How Is Christian Suffering Different From Sinful Suffering?

There are times when I feel as though Christianity speaks about suffering so much. Times...

September 2023

September 06, 2023

Can Grief Be Our Bridge to Heaven?

One of my worst fears is that of losing my loved ones. How do I...

June 2023

June 21, 2023

How Do You Love Your Enemies When You Don’t Feel Like Doing So?

One of the hardest things we’d ever learn from Christ is to love our enemies....

May 2023

May 11, 2023

Have You Ever Wondered How Happy You Could Be in Heaven?

Sometimes, we can have all the wrong ideas about heaven. We visualize a stereotypical image...

May 04, 2023

Can the World Ever Be Right Again?

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of...

May 01, 2023

How Do You Bear Your Most Painful Sufferings in Life?

Have you ever felt so much pain that you wondered how you'd ever make it...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

Are You Ready for the Hour of Your Death?

With the current progress in science and artificial intelligence, I often read about predictions that...

April 21, 2023

Is Christianity All About Suffering?

If there is anything wrong with how Christianity is sometimes preached today, perhaps it is...

March 2023

March 18, 2023

The Role of One’s Catholic Faith in Grief and Healing

“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present...

February 2023

February 15, 2023

3 Reasons Why Our Relationships Don’t End in Death

The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in 2023 is a catastrophe that would...