By David Whitmarsh Mercy is a dangerous virtue. It terrifies the sinister powers of the world because mercy is a special change agent for love. Mercy undoes years of dark progress. One of the greatest achievements of love, mercy transcends sacrifice because mercy is where my sacrifice meets suffering at
By David Whitmarsh Work is a necessity, and it can often be burdensome, but work is not a necessary burden. Work is a vocation. There are three vocations in the Christian life. We all share the universal vocation of coming to know God as our Father and to evangelize the
By David Whitmarsh Have you ever wondered what Adam and Eve were doing in the Garden, before the fall? My favorite answer is ‘tending the Garden’! Work in The Garden Genesis walks us quite beautifully through their days in the Garden. God, who spent all of time before man, creating
By Andrew Perez Young adults are leaving the Sacraments in exchange for community and real bonds. A recent study by The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows 79% of Catholics leave the Church by age twenty-three. This is alarming considering we are at war every day with the
By Will Wright The clergy are called by God to sanctify the People of God. The People of God, namely the laity, are called by God to sanctify the temporal order. The temporal order is the social, cultural, intellectual, political, and economic life in which people participate. This covers the
By Estyn Elan “Having difficulty acknowledging praise, anxiety, depression, burn-out and an inability to enjoy the success they have earned." These are the findings from current research by the Behavioral Sciences Journal on the presence of imposter syndrome in the lives of professionals. The issue with imposter syndrome typically
The following is the keynote speech at Tepeyac Leadership Night 2024, by Joe Langenderfer, CFRE: Sincere congratulations to the graduates of the Tepeyac Leadership Initiative 2024 Cohort. You entered TLI with your own thoughts of service and spiritual self-improvement that were helped shaped by the Holy Spirit. By early June
By Matthew Plese The Rosary is regarded as the greatest prayer we can offer next to only the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort remarked, "The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.
By Michael Yiin Introduction: Spy Wednesday, the day traditionally associated with Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, serves as a poignant reminder of the dangers posed by the love of money. This narrative offers valuable insights into the complexities of human nature, the allure
By Jean-Paul Afif Today we come together not merely as individuals, but as the living body of the Church. We gather at a pivotal moment, a moment that transcends the ordinary and beckons us to recognize the extraordinary calling that rests upon us. We are the laity, and this is
By Chad Brown On June 24, 2023, seventy-five lay Catholic professionals graduated from the Tepeyac Leadership Initiative (TLI), the flagship civic leadership development program for Tepeyac Leadership, Inc. I had the honor of serving as the TLI Class President for the 2023 cohort, the 6th graduating class to date. With
By Omar Aguilar Imagine you finally landed your dream job, bought the car you always wanted, took your lifelong-waited vacation, became very successful in your business. You’re the champ! You may say, yes I made it! This is it, all I ever wanted is done, mission accomplished. It'
The basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person… it is always man who is the purpose of the work. –Saint John Paul II, On Human Work By
The following is the keynote address at the recent Tepeyac Leadership Night, which took place in June 2023. By Dan Rosaschi Congratulations to all our new Tepeyac Leaders. Thank you for your commitment to Tepeyac Leadership and thank you for your commitment as warriors for Christ. I’d like to
By Omar Aguilar Recently, I went to the movies with twenty of my family members. When we arrived, ten other relatives showed up. We didn’t plan that! By the time the movie started the room was full, quite shocking for an afternoon on a 4th of July. The reason
By Omar Aguilar "There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens." Ecclesiastes 3:1 Thus begins the third chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes, a brief reminder of how brief life is, that everything has its place and its time.
