When do you most feel like you are "doing the will" of God? What kinds of ministry experiences bring the strongest conviction that you are doing so?

The return to the Sundays of Ordinary Time is a good chance for people to put their lives on a sound spiritual foundation, the rock of hearing God's Word and doing it.

A GOOD NAME is hard to develop—and harder to retrieve once compromised. Just watch a few news cycles and see how quickly folks move from celebrity to notoriety. When it comes to God, however, the Good Name resides in perfect integrity with the all-good Lord.

During the economic downturn of 2009 construction companies were hit particularly hard. That year and the one after were the two worst for the industry since 1959. Although there was a supply in housing, little-to-no demand for it existed.

John Bradburne was a quietly heroic doer of God's peace. Bradburne, a Third Order Franciscan, was known as the "leper saint" for his work in Zimbabwe before his death in 1979.

Do you know George Clooney? You might say, "Why yes, I know George Clooney. I've seen all the Ocean's movies, loved him in Michael Clayton, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of my favorite movies of all time. I even have all his Aunt Rosemary's CDs!"

In the week ahead we will enter into our observance of Lent. In a spirit of repentance we open ourselves to God's will.

They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus. The reading from Romans comes from one of the key passages setting forth Saint Paul's view of justification. Broadly,justification means being in the "right" with God--being "righteous."

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. --C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)