A spiritual packing list for the road to Heaven

2020年9月8日星期二

Louisa Florentin

Whether it means overpacking or bringing items we’d never use in our daily lives, going on vacation means luggage packed with the best version of ourselves. What if we adopted this same mindset on the road to Heaven?

St. Anthony of Padua and the value of shipwrecks

2018年6月13日星期三

Kristina Glicksman

Read this reflection on the life of St. Anthony of Padua and his example of holiness during a time of sickness and shipwreck.

S+L'S Top 10 Favorite Quotes from Gaudete et Exsultate

2018年4月10日星期二

Salt + Light Media

Read S+L'S Top 10 Favorite Quotes from Pope Francis' New document Gaudete et Exsultate: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World.

Understanding Gaudete et Exsultate

2018年4月9日星期一

Allyson Kenny

Today, Pope Francis released a new papal document - Gaudete et Exsultate: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World. The Latin title, Rejoice and Be Glad, comes from Matthew 5:12, part of the Sermon on the Mount - Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven. The Sermon on the Mount figures heavily into the document, providing a sort of 'roadmap' to holiness. Here are a few points to keep in mind as you read through the document:

Love as We Know It

2016年6月8日星期三

Emilie Callan

The vocation of the family is to love. The most extraordinary way a family can love is through the ordinariness of life. For the families we will meet in this series, it simply means being open to whatever God wills in their lives. It is their surest way to grow in holiness, a call given to everyone.

Deacon-structing Holiness

2015年5月31日星期日

Deacon Pedro

The problem with holiness is that we don’t think it’s for us. We believe that we are made for Heaven. We believe that God wants us to go to Heaven, but how many of us would say that we belong in Heaven? How many of us would say that we are going to Heaven? Sure, […]

Deacon-structing Vocations: The Religious Life

2014年11月30日星期日

Deacon Pedro

Deacon-structing Vocations: The Religious Life.

Deacon-structing Vocations: The Single Life

2014年11月22日星期六

Deacon Pedro

If there is anything that we learn from reading Scripture is that God calls people. Consistently, every story in the bible, involves a call: Abraham, Moses, Noah, Gideon, Jonah, Samuel, Ruth, Esther, Mary, Paul. Everyone gets called. God may not ‘call’ us the way He called Moses or St. Paul, or the specific way that […]

Flourishing in the New Evangelization

2012年10月1日星期一

Chris Adamczyk

The last several months, the phrase “The New Evangelization” has come up in many different spheres here in our Salt + Light office. I cannot comprehensively cover all the ins and outs of our efforts on this – as this is in some sense what we do everyday! What I will say is that this […]

A symbol of Holiness?

2012年7月12日星期四

Carlos Ferreira

The longest serving cardinal in the Catholic Church was buried yesterday in Rio de Janeiro. Cardinal Eugenio Sales died last Monday and his requiem mass took place yesterday at Rio’s Cathedral of Saint Sebastian. During the ceremony a dove landed on the casket and stayed there for almost an hour. Cardinal Sales was made cardinal […]