Travelers dressed as Mary and Joseph are accompanied to different houses each night by a procession. It concludes with a celebration, food and a piñata.

We are not called to periodic obedience, but to a daily and often hidden consent to whatever God asks of us.

No detail in God’s plan of salvation is coincidental. In the accounts of Jesus’ birth and infancy, a variety of people (and angels, too!) show up on the scene.

National Vocations Awareness Week is Sun, Nov 3-9. Follow our social media campaign with daily themes using #dsjvocations.

National Vocations Awareness Week is November 3-9, 2024. Each day this week will have a vocational theme.

Dear Father Joe: Sometimes, there are so many distractions at Mass that I can’t concentrate. It’s really frustrating – what can I do?

I’ve been praying, but sometimes I don’t know if what I’m thinking is actually God’s voice or if it is my own thoughts. Is there any way I can tell?

During the season of Advent, we seek to welcome Jesus into our hearts as Mary and Joseph welcomed him into their home.

Interview with Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., Dicastery for Divine Worship

In the spiritual life, virtues and vices compete

A Meditation on the Immaculate Conception

Finding the source and summit of the Christian life

What would it look like if we expected Jesus to speak to us through each day, even in the most mundane and ordinary moments?

In 2023, the bishops released the USCCB document Missionary Disciples Going Forth with Joy: National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry.

Filomena Giese first learned about Saint Joseph Naik Vaz, Sri Lanka’s only saint, “from my parents, who heard his heroic story from their parents.

The Church must focus on nurturing relationships with God and within society. It is through these relationships that faith is transmitted.

I’ve been noticing a verbal trend characterized by the increased usage of “honestly, truthfully or actually.” 

A Holy Year of the forgiveness of sin, conversion and joyful celebration

After placing each item in proper positions and lighting the two candles, he began his beachside celebration of the Eucharist.

Certain “worldly” attitudes, seasons of spiritual dryness, acedia (or sloth), distraction and lack of faith can all undermine our life of prayer.

To give as God gives includes our time, talent, treasure and, ultimately, our very selves.

This saint earned his “golden-mouthed” surname with his incredible preaching skills, which ultimately led to him falling out of favor with Church and political leaders because he called for reform.

Edith Stein was born in Poland in 1891 to a devout Jewish family. She gave up practicing the Jewish faith as a teenager and began to pursue a degree in philosophy.

Pilgrims from every corner of the nation gathered to celebrate what they know to their core – that the Eucharist is the source and summit of our Catholic faith.

Today we are grateful to be completing our studies at the Institute for Leadership in Ministry.