Isaiah accepted his vocation as a prophet. How can you recommit yourself to your vocation of bringing a rousing word to people?

When someone shouts, “Follow the leader!” most of us know instinctively what to do. We get behind the person who’s ahead of the pack. Generally speaking, the leader is the dominant one, perhaps the fastest or smartest among us, but not necessarily so.

"You're blocking MY sunset!" one man shouted to another, in between furiously laying on his horn. I was tempted to roll down my window and yell, "Well, YOU are ruining MY sunset!"

Years ago my daughter, a young girl at the time, was asked whether she would have liked to have a brother or sister (she is an only child). She offered an emphatic yes.

The difference between the good guys and the bad guys always seemed pretty apparent to Raphael. He had fought in both Iraq wars, where the bad guys were the enemy, the people he was supposed to search out and neutralize.

It was the beginning of Lent, and a teacher at a school in England introduced her students to the custom of eating hot cross buns.

As we begin the remembrance of our Lord’s Passion, we call to mind the failures and sins from which he saves us.

We must learn how to die to the last traces of clinging to anything less than God’s sustaining love.