Catholic News Service
A litany is a series of petitions made in prayer. The Litany of Humility is a popular -- if challenging -- devotion today.
Lent offers the perfect opportunity to pray for and work toward growing in humility. While...
Catholic News Service
To me, two of the most striking and humbling passages in the Bible are from Mark 14:53-65 and Mark 15:1-5, where Jesus is grilled first by the Temple hierarchy and then by Pilate about his identity.
By this...
When I was in college, a classmate posted on Ash Wednesday that she was giving up Facebook for Lent. Thursday, she joined Twitter. Funny? Yes. Inconceivable? No.
This begs the question, What was she hoping to get out of giving...
Humility seeks to put others first and ourselves last. For the Christian, it is about putting
Christ first.
Mindfulness of others, gratitude, our constant need for growth and improvement -- these help us to balance the uneasy coexistence of moving about...
CAMDEN, N.J. -- At an unprecedented meeting with student leaders from all nine South Jersey Catholic high schools, Camden Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan asked, "How can I guide you, and how can you guide each other? Be honest. ......
The Dialog
WILMINGTON – Billy Joel sang about it in “Miami 2017,” in the first line, in fact. “I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway,” the Piano Man says, but of course, they went right on with the show.
The...
Today's Readings from the USCCB:
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030918.cfm
• • •
“When you speak, look at the person in front of you. Say this prayer in your mind: Jesus, be now in this person when I speak to him and help me to see...
Dialog reporter
NEWARK – St. Elizabeth watched Caravel's superb scorer, O'Koye Parker, go without a point in the first half of the teams' matchup in the semifinal round of the DIAA boys' state basketball tournament, but they knew he could...
SYRACUSE. N.Y. -- In the nautical world, a "spar" is the straight pole used to support the sails and rigging of a ship.
In the world of faith and the ministry of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence in...
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY -- St. John Paul II once called Lent a period of "spiritual training" for sharpening people's ability to recognize "the voice of God and the insidious voice of the evil one."
But those skills need constant...