Fast-food culture has taken its toll on eating habits. More and more people are eating on the run, on their own, at their desks, or even in their cars.

Mealtime is the best time for just about everyone. People may prefer Italian to Tex-Mex, vegan to omnivore, big portions to small, or dessert to the entrée, but just about everybody I know considers “time to eat” among the happiest words they hear all day.

Dorothy Day’s 1963 book Loaves and Fishes chronicled the founding and early decades of the Catholic Worker Movement, which Day started with French worker-scholar Peter Maurin in 1933.

A middle-aged priest finally made his way into Alcoholics Anonymous after years of hiding his drinking, frustrated at his inability to stop.

We pray in the merciful presence of God.

Receive Communion often, very often . . . there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.