Question: Do you have a soul? Where did that soul come from? If I have a soul, and God gave me that soul, divine revelation teaches us that God wants my soul for Himself. He does not want part of my soul; He wants all of it. Not the part that is left over after we love our husband or wife; not the part that is left after we give it to our children; not the part that is left after I pursue my success or own leisure. God does not want what is left over after I am finished givin

The other day, on Friday, we observed the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. As part of that observance this year, the bishops of the United States solemnly consecrated our nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is an ancient one, and it is pervasive in the Church today. However, what exactly does it mean? Are we simply acknowledging a vital organ or is there a deeper meaning to this mystery of God’s presence and love for us. Of course

In a letter to his son, Michael, in 1941, the English author J.R.R. Tolkien was giving his fatherly advice about love and marriage. In it, he acknowledges the struggles and downright “drudgery” that married life can be – that it is not all “romance” and “faerie tales.” In short, Tolkien holds out that love is a consistent, daily decision that the lovers make for one another. This from a man whose own married life, by his account, was the stuff of romance. However, he does off

On any given Sunday, the odds of a congregation hearing some form of heresy is low, but never zero. However, on the Sunday of the Most Holy Trinity, it goes up a little bit. The danger of falling into some sort of heresy by trying to explain the Holy Trinity is usually where you fall into some form of reduction of the Trinity to something less than the sublime glory that is God himself. The Holy Trinity is a mystery, and we need to first and foremost recognize that and realiz