A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.