Take a moment to check in with your body and the way you are feeling. Have any aches, pains, or illness that are interfering with your ability to concentrate or carry out your work? Are you getting the exercise you need, eating well, getting enough rest?

One of the bravest and most challenging documents ever to come out of a bishops’ committee is the one on preaching, aptly titled Fulfilled in Your Hearing. Reading it is one of the better ways to prepare your homily for this weekend—or any weekend, for that matter.

in one of the many versions of the “what’s in your wallet?” commercials, a man asks a woman to promise that she’ll wait for him as he takes care of business with his credit card.

When Kevin stepped through the doorway and heard the door clang shut, he remembered how he felt two years, seven months, and 26 days before when he walked through the same door and heard it lock behind him. He remembered thinking how life could not get any worse.

We are baptized into Christ. Let us ask the Lord for forgiveness for when we have not kept our baptismal promises.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.