Blow the Trumpet! Call the Assembly!

Every Lent, as the church invites us to draw closer to the Lord, it calls us to take up the ancient practice of fasting.  Every Ash Wednesday, we are urged to return to the Lord “with fasting, and weeping, and mourning” as we turn away from our sins and seek God’s mercy.  Every year, we[…]
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Deliverance and Healing

By Fr. Richard McAlear, O.M.I. One of the gifts of the Charismatic Renewal has been a rediscovery of ministries that have been long neglected, if not forgotten.  The openness to charisms has brought about new possibilities for ministry in the Church, ministries sorely needed today.  Healing and deliverance are two such works that have been[…]
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Encountering the God Who Speaks

Three Keys to Hearing God’s Voice Pope Benedict XVI tells us that as much as we may like quick answers, we can gain clarity on the enigmas of life only as we take the time to immerse ourselves in the word of God. So in this article, we want to look at how we can[…]
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The Feast of Pentecost

By Fr. Robert T. Sears, PhD. Originally called the Feast of Weeks (seven weeks after the initial barley harvest at Passover), Shavout, was a harvest feast, celebrating the first fruits of the wheat harvest.  It was one of the three major feasts — Passover, Feast of Weeks and Feast of Booths — where pilgrims came[…]
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Walk in the Light – An Easter Meditation on John 20:1-9

Rev. Robert Miller, from his book Fire in the Deep (Sheed & Ward, 2001) A decade ago, after years of illness, my mother went to her eternal reward. As she “made her transition”, we who stood at her grave missed her greatly but would not have wished her back. My mother had “fought the good fight” of cancer, aging[…]
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The Glory of the Cross

As we begin our season of Lent, let’s look ahead to Good Friday, the event that the whole of Lent points us toward. Let’s go to Calvary and look closely at the cross of Christ. This cross is far more than two beams of wood pieced together.  It’s far more than the piece of jewelry[…]
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Jesus Dies Today – A Meditation on Philippians 2:6-11

Rev. Robert Miller, from his book Fire in the Deep, (Sheed & Ward, 2001) The author Elie Wiesel, a concentration camp survivor, tells a story about his prison. Following the attempted escape of several prisoners, all the men were lined up to watch the hanging of a number of others in retaliation. As the bodies[…]
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MARY’S MODEL: Preparing for the Coming of the Lord

By Fr. Joseph Lionel, M.A., Ph.D., STD (Cand) The Advent season in the Liturgical Year invites us to prepare for the coming of the Lord.  The theology of Advent is dependent on the theology of Christmas, because what you wait for determines the way you wait.  The term Advent comes from the combination of two[…]
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Authentic Pentecost

For those of us involved in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Pentecost is an especially significant day.  We often point to this experience in the early Church as evidence of the validity of the experience of “baptism in the Spirit,” which has touched our lives so deeply. Yet baptism in the Spirit, certainly an experience is[…]
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