Hope & Healing

How to Pray for Someone Who Has Died

How to Pray for Someone Who Has Died

After someone dies, love does not suddenly know what to do with itself. You may still think of them first thing in the morning. You may still want to call...

How to Pray for Someone Who Has Died

After someone dies, love does not suddenly know what to do with itself. You may still think of them first thing in the morning. You may still want to call...

What to Do After Someone You Love Dies

What to Do After Someone You Love Dies

The first days after someone dies can feel unreal. There are phone calls to make. People to notify. Funeral arrangements. Documents. Meals arriving at the door. Messages from people who...

What to Do After Someone You Love Dies

The first days after someone dies can feel unreal. There are phone calls to make. People to notify. Funeral arrangements. Documents. Meals arriving at the door. Messages from people who...

How Catholics Grieve the Death of Someone They Love

How Catholics Grieve the Death of Someone They ...

Grief can make the world feel strangely unchanged. People still go to work. Cars still move through traffic. The grocery store is still open. The sun still rises. And yet...

How Catholics Grieve the Death of Someone They ...

Grief can make the world feel strangely unchanged. People still go to work. Cars still move through traffic. The grocery store is still open. The sun still rises. And yet...

How the Saints Endured Suffering

How the Saints Endured Suffering

The saints suffered too. Not in abstract ways. They buried people they loved. They lived with illness. They endured rejection, misunderstanding, persecution, loneliness, poverty, chronic pain, and spiritual darkness. Some...

How the Saints Endured Suffering

The saints suffered too. Not in abstract ways. They buried people they loved. They lived with illness. They endured rejection, misunderstanding, persecution, loneliness, poverty, chronic pain, and spiritual darkness. Some...

What the Cross Teaches Us About Pain

What the Cross Teaches Us About Pain

Pain has a way of narrowing the world. When you hurt enough, everything else can start to fade. The conversation becomes the pain. The prayer becomes the pain. The future...

What the Cross Teaches Us About Pain

Pain has a way of narrowing the world. When you hurt enough, everything else can start to fade. The conversation becomes the pain. The prayer becomes the pain. The future...

How to Pray in the Middle of Suffering

How to Pray in the Middle of Suffering

Suffering can make prayer harder. Not because you suddenly stopped believing in God. But because pain changes the way you think. Sometimes you cannot concentrate. Sometimes you are angry. Sometimes...

How to Pray in the Middle of Suffering

Suffering can make prayer harder. Not because you suddenly stopped believing in God. But because pain changes the way you think. Sometimes you cannot concentrate. Sometimes you are angry. Sometimes...