This marvelous parable gives us a fundamental lesson about education.

Shame is the pain that we feel when we are face to face with failures that we are responsible for—and especially when those failures and faults are visible to others.

One remarkable account of martyrdom in the early Church is that of two mothers, Saints Perpetua and Felicity.

Every time we suffer a calamity in our spiritual life, we grow alarmed and think we have lost our way.

Every time we suffer a calamity in our spiritual life, we grow alarmed and think we have lost our way.

Why has God created us?

At the beginning of the Gospel of Mark there are four phrases that summarize the entire work of the Lord and that nurture and give meaning to our existence:

Firmer resolution to maintain a deep inner stability and to accept the waves of difficulties, agitation, and confusions that, though caused by my health, do not touch the depths, as well as painful disappointments caused by some people.

Saint Thérèse saw the infinite love of God as a pent-up ocean, yearning and aching to release its torrents which are held back by our barricades.