One resolution I have made and put into practice, notwithstanding physical and moral weakness, is to be "joyful. . .

The Church of Christ is holy.

Saying 'no' to some things has great importance in life because we want to say 'yes' to something else. 

We have often constructed interiorly an arresting scene: 

Tenebrae, named after the Latin word for darkness, is a unique celebration of the early morning prayers of the Divine Office for the three days of the Easter Triduum.

The extraordinary fact of Catholic life in the United States is not the few bishops who humiliate us so bitterly, but the many who do the job so well.

For the apostles the transfiguration formed part of their training. 

Karol Wojtyła had two convictions that shaped his papal ministry and his thinking about education:

In the struggle between grace and our fallen nature, Christ stands at our sides, ready with His word and His bread to lead us on to victory.

When the season of Lent comes, it brings with it Calvary.