As noted in the past, I have experienced many blessings since I started meeting regularly with my spiritual director. One such blessing came early on when he encouraged me to spend an hour a day in adoration.
Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky was a bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a martyr. He had a great zeal for the salvation of souls and lived a life of great virtue.
Tom and Glory Sullivan will accompany the Legatus pilgrimage to Guadalupe for the last time this month, but their longtime support for the care and education of the destitute children of Girlstown goes on.
Christ challenges us, as He did St. Peter, to "cast into the deep" (Luke 5:4). While there are several layers of meaning to this call, among these are to trust in His word, to do God's will, and to embrace our Christian mission to the fullest.
On December 1, 1862, Abraham Lincoln concluded his remarks to Congress with these words: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." A month later, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.