In Go to Heaven, Futon Sheen says this about the Good Thief: Pain in itself is not unbearable; it is the failure to understand its meaning that is unbearable. If that thief did not see the purpose in pain, he…

“Patience comes of sovereign prudence, impatience of unchecked folly.” (Proverbs 14:29) One thing I’ve been trying hard to work on during Lent is patience. Impatience is the bad fruit of a will not aligned with God’s Will. God does all…

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…