In his book, Descending Fire: The Journal of a Soul Aflame, Father Jean Petit, a renowned spiritual director, meditates on the paradox that “the more we taste the bitterness of our apparently unsuccessful work, the more the divine fire quickens our soul and works in us what our weakness cannot accomplish.” In a world that tends to mock us when we do not succeed and that tries to convince us we are nothing but failures, we rely on the truth proclaimed by the Apostle Paul, “…God chose what is...

To be and become forgiving persons is to remember that God is our “rock of refuge.” In Psalm 32:1, we read:                                      "In you, O Lord, I seek refuge;                                     do not let me ever be put to shame;                                     In your righteousness, deliver me.                                     Incline your ear to me;                                     Rescue me speedily.                                     Be a rock of refuge for...

In an informational age like our own, it is embarrassing to admit that certain questions defy explanation.  The circumstances surrounding them remain a mystery to the best minds. There are barriers beyond which reason cannot go.  Yet, even though we do not see, we still believe.  In faith, we confirm the ultimate goodness of God, whose ways remain a mystery to us: “For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?  But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16). Since God’s ways...