How To Help Others With Mental Illness
If you already know that you suffer from a mental illness, don’t be shy about sharing your story with people. That’s the best way to increase awareness and erase the stigma.
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Author: Mike Eisenbath
Jesus Beckons: “Will You Come and Follow Me?”
My hunch is that the rich young man didn’t pay attention to the love of Jesus as He beckoned, whereas the apostles could see it in His eyes, hear it in His voice, detect that special love in His words.
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Running Toward and Embracing the Gift of Suffering
At the age of 55, I completed my very first marathon Sunday, March 12. And I profoundly deepened my spiritual life in the process.
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During Lent God Isn’t Interested In Your Sins, But In You!
The mistake most of us make regarding the Lenten season is that we focus on our mistakes, our wrongdoings, our sins.
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Life’s Storms Compel Us to Him
A woman inside took shelter in a bathtub, and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods with the woman still in the tub but the woman was not injured.
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A Church Desecrated – Holy Light Shines Forth From A Truly Unholy Action
The woman poured wine on the vestments the priests wear for Mass, as well as on other linens. She tore out pages of the Bible and other books. She also spread human feces all over the church – on that Bible, on the baptismal font and, yes, all over the Blessed Sacrament.
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Only Meekness Might Save America From Embarrassment In This Election
A prediction: Sometime next year, a book will hit the market with a huge splash. The title will be “The Donald, Hillary and the 2016 Presidential Campaign: The Year That Embarrassed America.” I will not be the author; I won’t even be a reader. I’ve had enough already, and we still have about four months remaining of this nonsense.
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Unique Grace: Living by my “Ten-Second Rule”
“If you pay attention so closely that you won’t miss your 10-second message,” the priest said, “then you will find that the Mass has greater meaning and impact than ever. And you will leave with a real message from God, just for you.”
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Let’s Stop Sneering at the “Christmas and Easter Catholics”
I’m actually someone who misses all those Christmas-and-Easter Catholics on the 50 other Sundays. Their spots in the pews are lonely when vacant. No matter what the ages are of those people who could fill those places, we miss them in our worship. We miss their voices and prayers, their spirit and their needs.
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A Holy Reflection: What’s Really Important?
“What is the most important thing in your life?” Albert Pujols will ask. Inevitably, the other player will inquire why Pujols is asking. He responds: “The whole reason I’m asking you that is there’s more than the game.”
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