Category Archives: faith
“God was in the whole thing.”
Watch the honest and faith-filled sharing of the wives of the five missionaries who were killed by the Aucas in 1956: Women of Faith. And here’s the story: Five Missionaries Speared To Death In Jungle Many people thought it was a tragic waste of a life when Jim Elliot and the other four missionaries died …
Walking and loving in darkness
Catherine Doherty writes about the love that finds us in the darkness: Through faith we are able to turn our faces to God and meet his gaze. Each day becomes more and more luminous. The veil between God and man becomes less and less until it seems as if we can almost reach out and …
A paradoxical path
Benedict XVI is giving a series of teachings on the Creed. Here is a teaser from his first one: Faith leads Abraham to tread a paradoxical path. He will be blessed, but without the visible signs of blessing: he receives the promise to become a great nation, but with a life marked by the barrenness …
“An unparalyzed faith”
This is such an astounding story–a great one for the Year of Faith: On July 3, Robert Shelby wanted to show one of his children how to avoid belly-flops when diving. When Shelby demonstrated at a neighbor’s pool, he slammed his head on the bottom. He tried to swim. He couldn’t. “None of my body …
Faith’s beginning
A Sunday-poem by Fr. David May from Madonna House for the beginning of this Year of Faith: Faith’s Beginning by Fr. David May. It was (and is) like this: That tortuous, tortured place, Fleeing, like a tremulous little bird, Flitting between hiding places, Creature of shadows Never in full light, Yet giving away its presence In …
The Year of Faith
An article by Catherine Doherty from Madonna House on faith–faith in the God who loves us no matter what. Be encouraged! Getting Ready for the Year of Faith by Catherine Doherty. When I was a young wife in Petrograd, the city was in chaos when the communists took over. My husband Boris and I were …
Being willing to undertake the journey
I am reading a remarkable book by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant and Conversation, a Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible. This volume concerns the book of Genesis and contains many insights and reflections by this wonderful man, such as this one: Faith is the ability to live with delay without losing trust in the …
Why? Why? Why?
[I was out of town and then came down with a nasty head cold . . . thus, my absence this past week.] Today’s reading from Amy Carmichael’s Whispers of Power: Mt 11.6 And blessed is he, who shall not be offended in Me. All of us are sometimes troubled by questions. Why is the …
The storehouse of our mind
When you find yourself in the middle of a trial, is there a verse from Scripture that wells up from your heart to sustain you? I hope that is the case for you. Amy Carmichael writes about the importance of filling the “storehouse of our mind” with the riches of the Scriptures so that we …
