Job: The trial of faith, the blessing of expectation

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Pope Francis

Pope Francis explores how the elderly, like Job, can teach us how to unite our suffering to the cross of Jesus Christ, trusting in God's mercy and goodness.

A time for healing | Word Alive

Friday, February 5, 2021

Vivian Cabrera

Vivian Cabrera reflects on how Job speaks right to the heart of what we are all experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deacon-structing the voice of illness, part 5

Monday, December 21, 2020

Deacon Pedro

The Bible is full of violence and suffering, and it is full of innocent sufferers. Deacon Pedro looks at some instructive examples.

Rebuilding the Culture of Faith

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Salt + Light Media

“He imposes peace in His heights. Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not shine?[…] even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in His sight.” Book of Job, Chapter 25 Few books of the Bible are as telling as The Book of Job. Some books of the […]

Deacon-structing: The devil 1

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Deacon Pedro

Recently someone asked me why Pope Francis keeps mentioning the devil, as if the devil actually existed (see Fr. Rosica’s recent post, Why in the devil does Pope Francis speak so much about the prince of this world? )This person alleged that, just as ogres and leprechauns, devils do not exist. But the Catholic Church is […]

Holding steadfast at June’s Lectio Divina

Friday, June 10, 2011

Matthew Harrison

We’ve reached the end of the fourth season of Lectio Divina. In June’s Lectio Divina, Archbishop Thomas Collins concludes his reflection on the Letter of St. James meditating on James 4:11-5:20. At one point the Archbishop highlights patience. Not the kind of patience we think of when being cut off in traffic or waiting in […]