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Catholic belief is that purgatory is a state of being between this world and the next where a person goes when they die if they warrant heaven and is not yet in a state of perfection. Non-Catholic Christians reject the idea of purgatory and believe a person goes directly toContinue Reading

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Have you ever noticed that two people can go through the exact same experience but come out of it completely differently? Two kids raised in the same house, two patients facing the same illness, two friends navigating the same challenge—yet their hearts, their responses, their lives take different turns. That’sContinue Reading

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Today is the Feast of All Souls, the day we remember all of those on their way to heaven.   Those who have gone on before us, those we’ve lost recently or in years past.   We pray for them and honor them in hopes that they will be face-to-face with GodContinue Reading

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I was standing in the Sacristy the other day in front of the air conditioner, staring out at that marvelous tree that is just outside the door there.   Watching the squirrels run up and down the trunk, and the leaves which were beginning to turn falling once in a whileContinue Reading

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One of the oldest pursuits of man is to find the meaning of life. Why am I here? What difference does any of it make? The Baltimore Catechism, which originated at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 asks the question, “Why did God make me?” It answers theContinue Reading

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We all love a good story, don’t we? There’s something so compelling about a narrative that pulls us in with a hero to root for and a villain to despise. We crave the satisfaction of seeing an injustice righted, of watching good triumph over evil. It’s a timeless theme thatContinue Reading

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Time is a mystery. When we hear the word mystery we think of a who-done-it. The actual meaning from the Greek is ‘a thing whispered’. This is what the Church means when she says that something is a mystery. It is not so much a secret as it is a thing whispered.Continue Reading