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Pope Francis’ Thoughts on Lent

Each year, the Holy Father publishes his thoughts and reflections on the upcoming Lenten season.  This year is no different and the theme comes from Matthew 24:12: “Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold.” Below is an...

Hope and Healing

The theme for the 2018 International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is: Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power (cf. Exodus 15:6). We continue with day 4 of the biblical reflections from the official handbook, which was drafted this year by...

Introducing the Devout Life

St. Francis began An Introduction to the Devout Life as a correspondence with a married woman looking to increase her spiritual devotion in the midst of a busy life; the result was a layman’s guide to the spiritual life. Each chapter is a short...

Start the new year off right

The liturgical “new year” began on the First Sunday of Advent, and we have already completed the spiritual preparation that now has us in the full swing of the Christmas season. Let us not lose that momentum, and let us enter into this...

We are getting close to the end

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Unto us a Savior is born

It is the most joyful news we can receive—our Creator has become one of us! In all of our scrambling for the perfect gift, we should remember that, no matter what, the perfect Christmas gift comes to us every year. Jesus Christ becomes one of us so...

Awaiting Mary’s Yes to God

We began this Advent series of reflections with the question: what are you waiting for? With the busy-ness of Commercial Christmas constantly demanding our attention, it is easy to lose sight of the watchfulness and preparation the Church asks of us...

Introducing the New Verbum Mobile App

When you’re reading Scripture, sometimes you want a clean, undistracted look at God’s Word. Other times, you need to go a level deeper: glance at a commentary, do a word study, compare biblical passages, or even dig into the Greek or Hebrew. Now you...