Ordinary Time continues to provide us with opportunities to learn about our faith and to grow in the practice of virtues. We honor the Mother of the Church on her Assumption (15) and Queenship (22). The month offers us another example of how U.S. citizens fulfill the vocation to holiness in Knights of Columbus founder Blessed Michael McGivney (13).

It was only Jesus, but they saw his glory.

Today the world commemorates what remains the ultimate demonstration of worldly might and power: the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States in 1945.

It was a true joy to baptize my niece Gina’s two daughters with the beautiful names of Grace and Faith. I was privileged to be her godfather before I was ordained. When she was expecting her third child, she told me wanted me to baptize him with the name Dominic

A painting by the early 19th-century German artist Caspar Friedrich is named The Monk and the Sea. It’s a huge canvas, about four feet high by five feet wide. The picture is almost entirely a stormy sky.

We are called to the table of God's love and forgiveness

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life but transfigured.