The Advent and Christmas seasons offer a unique opportunity for reflection, celebration, and connecting with family, but they can also bring stress, especially for busy Catholic professionals. Between work deadlines, travel plans, and attending numerous family and church events, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. With a bit of planning
St. Juan Diego’s life is a powerful witness of how God calls all people—especially the humble and ordinary—to participate in His divine plan. His story is an invitation to lay Catholics to discover and embrace the mission God has prepared for them, no matter how small or challenging it may seem.
Advent, the liturgical season marking the preparation for the birth of Jesus Christ, is a time of anticipation, reflection, and spiritual renewal. For Catholic professionals, balancing the demands of work with a meaningful observance of Advent can present unique challenges. Yet, it is precisely in the hustle and bustle of
By David Whitmarsh What’s in a word? Is it really just etymology, meaning, connotation, idiom, colloquialism, jargon, technicality, power dynamic, and personal, regional, cultural significance? Some words feel like a lot more than that to me. Perhaps a better question is: what makes a word? That answer is something
“The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down.” Proverbs 21:20 By Bachir Kallas Financial wisdom is essential for a well-balanced, faithful life. It’s not just about wealth or material security but using our resources in a way that honors God and blesses
By David Whitmarsh Words matter, but talk is cheap. We humans typically vacillate between ‘words matter’ and ‘word smatter’. The smattering of words we spend on that which does not satisfy is a spiritual epidemic. The remedy belongs to those who begin spending more words that matter. Welcome to prayer.
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
