I’ll admit it. I dislike cleaning my bathrooms. I like clean bathrooms, but it’s a chore to have to clean them. I’m sure you often feel the same way. Whether it’s cleaning the garage, mowing the lawn, pulling weeds or changing beds, we all engage in some necessary activities we’d rather not have to spend […]
Lent is fast approaching. What’s your plan this year? I believe one of the most important things we can do each Lent to grow in holiness is to immerse oneself in the lives of the saints. How do we do this? By reading about them. Decide to fast every day from some of your own
Rest. God created it. He commands it—especially on Sundays: “But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates” (Ex 20:10 RSVCE). God, then,
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Prayer is communication with God. Jesus says, “You do not have, because you do not ask” (James 4:2). “Inseparable” from the Christian life, prayer is deemed “a vital necessity” for us, says the Catholic Church (CCC, 2757). Prayer Room Does it matter where we pray? Jesus instructs us, “when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees
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Jesus many times tells us in the gospels to fear not. He is not talking about holy fear of the Lord designed to keep us on the right path to obtaining eternal life with God in Heaven. The type of fear Jesus speaks about is that which constrains us from doing the will of God.
Our lives, says the Catechism of the Catholic Church, have a “rhythm of work and rest” (CCC, 2184). Every day we should take some time for a little break—a “mini-Sabbath,” if you will. We need to pull back for a moment from our daily stresses and routines to ease our minds and bodies. Take a