True love is difficult to define, but from a Christian standpoint, love is best understood through scripture. In fact, one of the most sought-after themes in the Bible is the definition of love. What ...

“For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay each according to his conduct.” Find today’s readings here. When I graduated from the Jesuit School of ...

There are several verses in the Bible that say God is always with us. Romans 8:35-29 tells us that no matter what God is always there. We all face times in our walk with faith that test our commitment ...

A Christian parent’s greatest hope is echoed in 3 John: “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” (v. 4). Throughout each generation, mothers and fathers have ...

I recently learned about a unique bond between a mother and daughter from Cascade, Montana. Whenever the child would run into some sort of deep crisis, hurt feeling, emotional bruise or perhaps even ...

One of the great mysteries to believers and nonbelievers is that of evil and suffering. If there is a God who is omnipotent and omniscient, how can he tolerate evil, injustice and the suffering of the ...

"In the story of the birth of our Savior, there surfaces a “key player” someone whose love is unmatched, and of course, that ...

The new book "Light For Today: 365 Daily Devotions from the Lighthouse" was a labor of love — to see God in the everyday challenges of life and to reconcile the inner pains and normal stresses with ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection for the readings and Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Dec. 21, 2025.

Early in my college career, a creative philosophy teacher introduced me to René Descartes. The young Jesuit described Descartes as a passionate seeker for certainty. Descartes decided to doubt ...

What does it look like to love our neighbors as ourselves? As we dig more into Scripture, we will see that a neighbor is not ...

I listened attentively while cooking dinner at my parents’ house to my mother reading Bible stories to my 3-year-old son. They were at the part of the story of the sons of Jacob, when Joseph’s ...