During his morning Mass, Pope Francis asked people to remember to thank God in prayer for always being there to help them “move forward, to hope, to carry the cross.” The pope also said the ...

But lacking catechesis, we may not be able to recognize what we are experiencing as the work, indeed the very presence, of God. Remember that God created all of us, baptized or not, to live and ...

Discerning the will of God means being able to listen to one's own heart and recognize the Lord's presence in the unexpected events of life, Pope Francis said. Like St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose ...

Through the words of this psalm, Christians can learn to “recognize (God's) presence and accept his ways, like David during his humiliating flight from his son Absalom … and, finally and fully ...

In Psalm 51, King David cries out to God: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

God’s arrival also has a way of disrupting what had once been stable. In both cases, God draws close at precisely the moment when we are tempted to think God is absent. Ed’s Story puts a these ...

Thankfully God chooses to do so through human witnesses, but the effectiveness of our teaching depends ultimately on the presence and activity of the Holy Spirit. God is the primary teacher in our ...

The renewal of the Franciscan order must start, like the order itself did, from being with and learning to really see poor and marginalized people as an "almost sacramental sign of God's presence," ...

Today, I live because of his grace.""I still feel a lot of peace because I literally know that God's presence covered this campus, and when we were praying in that room, he was there.

The doctrine of the real presence in the Eucharist developed in a world where God was everywhere. My Thessaloniki tears flowed at the realization that today, we don't see God anywhere.