Have you ever truly praised Jesus for pizza? Now, I understand that is an odd question to begin with. I am sure many of us have said that we love pizza, or we’ve enjoyed the taste of goooood pizza, or maybe even have jokingly said, “Thank you, sweet Jesus, for this pizza.”
God's Love
Turning Tables
This lent I encourage you not to give up or add on a number of things as a way to earn God’s love. I don’t want to count my rosaries or try to put a value on my offering of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. I don’t want to estimate these sacrifices’ worth in God’s eyes because I know myself and I will automatically equate their worth to my own worth in His eyes.
Video: Ash Wednesday: Calling all Catholics
The beauty of Ash Wednesday and the spiritual meaning behind being signed with ashes often draws lapsed Catholics back to Mass. This desire is, in fact, an invitation from the Lord himself, urging a return to full communion with the Church of Jesus Christ. Don’t let anything stand in your way. Come home, for the love of God, come home.
Give Me A Sign!
In today’s gospel, Christ reminds us of how disappointed he is with these kinds of attitudes, as well as the effect they have on our relationship with him.
Spiritual But Not Religious?
How spirituality devoid of the Christian religion is not in conformity with God’s plan; therefore, the “spiritual but not religious” approach is not the method God himself has instituted in order to guide humankind into Trinitarian communion.