In Peter Kreeft’s Practical Theology, a commentary on St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, the author says this in Chapter 71, “The Importance of Knowledge:” “If we don’t know the road, we cannot attain the goal, no matter how much we…

The prophet Elias listens for the Lord: “Then word came to him to go out and stand there in the Lord’s presence; the Lord God himself would pass by. A wind there was, rude and boisterous, that shook the mountains…

Many people have at least a mental image of Jesus — do you? Years ago I heard a homily in which the priest suggested we contemplate a picture of Jesus after receiving the Eucharist, as a way to develop a…

Here is Jesus preparing the world for the Eucharist: Then the Jews fell to disputing with one another, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?  Whereupon Jesus said to them, Believe me when I tell you this;…

“God had planted a garden of delight, in which he now placed the man he had formed. Here, at the bidding of the Lord God, the soil produced all such trees as charm the eye and satisfy the taste; and…