Our Lord Jesus Christ, after dying for our sins on the cross and ascending on high, left not the world as he found it, but left a blessing behind him.

Imagine a primitive tribe somewhere, whose shamans perform a ritual rain dance each year.

Not everything one writes gets published. 

Sometimes I think of football (soccer), though I have no interest in it.

Do you know the greatest secret that Saint Louis de Montfort discovered, and why he came up with the consecration to Mary? 

Picture a line divided into three equal segments.

Dear Jesus, I have done so little for you in the past year. 

Most of us know today's Gospel scene (Lk 2:22-40) as the Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation in the Temple. 

God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another.

Many of us have heard expressed the formulaic regret by someone declining to attend an event: "Though I can't be there, I’ll be there with you in spirit!"