A lot is stirring in today's readings, and it's all being stirred by the Holy Spirit.

Humility tends to bubble to the surface of many a soul during the holiday season. The great generosity and need of others overwhelms us.

Being a voice isn’t bad. All of us who call ourselves Christian share this fundamental vocation. We cry out. We speak against injustice, stand with those who suffer, tell the truth in a season of easy lies.

By helping actors-in-training to develop their spiritual as well as artistic and spiritual gifts, the Holy Wood school heeds John Paul II's challenge to "remember that you, artists, are the custodians of beauty in the world."

John the Baptist was burning inside with a message of repentance and openness to the power of God, and all the religious leaders wanted to know was what religious camp he was in.

Who are you and what do you have to say for yourself? Those questions put to John the Baptist aren't easy to answer.

Lord Jesus, you are the light of the world. Help us to walk in your light.

Bathing as an act of purification had a long history in Greco-Roman religion and the Hebrew Bible.

Spiritual disciplines, whether ecstatic or ascetic, are an integral part of our experience of religious joy. --Rose Marie Berger, "Pursuing the Secret of Joy," Sojourners