https://youtu.be/fzp9mr5rKkw Forgiveness -- both seeking and offering it -- is one of the great challenges of our Catholic faith. But it is also among its greatest treasures. In some respects,…

https://youtu.be/fzp9mr5rKkw When I was 17 years old, I bumped into a bush and lodged a thorn in my elbow muscle. I pulled the thorn out, cleaned the wound with alcohol…

https://youtu.be/LlP8Gm7vNsU A traditional way to approach the Lenten practice of almsgiving is to give from the excess that you create by fasting. For example, according to Catholic Relief Services, you…

https://youtu.be/LlP8Gm7vNsU Lent is a time of sacrifice. We strive to unite ourselves with the suffering of Jesus, walking with him in the desert, agonizing with him in the garden, dying…

https://youtu.be/pf_7ejzYcrQ "We must love with our eyes open," Canterbury’s Archbishop Justin Welby said last October. Saints, the Anglican leader advised, are people who are able to face and to confront…

https://youtu.be/pf_7ejzYcrQ Each year in the days before Lent, my husband and I share a list of what we plan to give up that year. Last year, it took just a…