Youth’s Resolve Helps All by Marybeth Hicks

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. First, when it comes to resolutions, I’m a pathetic cliche. I start out with determination and commitment and end, roughly a week later, in a pool of chocolate. My problem is that making resolutions for the New Year feels like entering a perpetual state of Lent, which is sometimes doable [...]

Thank You St. Joachim’s!

This past weekend, I had the absolute honor of visiting with the parishioners of my fellow Diocese of Fresno parish St. Joachim’s in Madera, CA.  One of their priests, Fr. Rafael Lavilla, OSJ, kindly invited me to give the introductory remarks for their screening of The 13th Day: The True Story of Fatima. Fr. Rafael, [...]

Timothy R Smith – Today Is the Day – Catholic CD Review

Timothy R Smith’s CD, Today is the Day, clearly illustrates Timothy’s passion to help parishes and organizations respond to the Church’s Apostolic call to evangelization. Tim has over 90 musical compositions published by OCP. His songs combine traditional and contemporary musical idioms that are easily accessible to both listeners and worshiping assemblies. Some of Tim’s well-known [...]

My Testimony by Victoria Gisondi

My parents came to the U.S. as Cuban refugees in the 1960’s  to escape Castro’s communist regime and for  freedom of speech and religion. My dad had to leave parents and sister behind In Havana. My mom’s whole family made it in.  My mother graduated from Chestnut Hill college in Philadelphia where she was blessed [...]

Sustenance by Michele Howe

Every Thursday morning, Aimee had a standing appointment to pick up and deliver meals to a group of elderly men and women in her city. Aimee started volunteering as a driver after her own parents had become the glad recipients of mobile meals in their hometown. Perspective She soon heard nothing but praises for the food and [...]