Tag Archive: #reflection

Advent Series Week Two: 7 Scriptures On Forgiveness

Continuing with Chris Stefanick’s 4-part Advent video series, this week features guests Jim Beckman and Fr. Kevin Gerarci from the Fathers of Mercy. Together, they go all in on the topic of forgiveness using 7 verses from Scripture to guide [read more...]

Humble Beginnings

On this Third Sunday of Advent, we are reminded, yet again, that Jesus is coming. But how will He come? The Gospels reveal to us that Jesus came not as a great leader, not as a warrior, not as a [read more...]

Advent Series Week One: What Forgiveness is Not

In this 4-part Advent video series, Chris Stefanick discusses forgiveness. While true forgiveness is a process and a decision, there are many things forgiveness is not. Learn how to keep your boundaries while forgiving someone who isn’t sorry. Click HERE [read more...]

Preparing for Christmas

What is the best way to prepare for the season of Advent? You’re free to do what you know will help you prepare for Christmas the best. If decorating and so forth does not help you prepare for the coming [read more...]

God’s Kingdom is at Hand

Second Sunday of Advent – Year A Today is the second Sunday of Advent. Christmas will be here soon. Today’s responsorial psalm reads: “Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever.” And this refrain, is a beautiful [read more...]

Thanksgiving Special: Squanto

Do you know the story of Squanto? It could be seen as a prime example of a life filled with one tragedy after another. But in this special Thanksgiving video, Fr. Mike Schmitz offers a different perspective by showing how [read more...]

Reconnecting With Jesus

Our lives are full and fast-paced. Often, we are caught up in the ordinary routines of life. Jesus captures that sense of ordinary things—eating, drinking, getting married, working in the fields, or working in the mill grinding grain—that not only [read more...]

You are Sacred

Repeat this phrase in your head: I am Sacred. Do you believe that to be true? It’s often difficult to see yourself as a holy, sacred temple that God dwells within, isn’t it? One of the greatest lies we buy into is [read more...]

Can Anyone Count on You?

You’ve probably heard the phrase “cancel culture”—the phenomenon where public figures get “canceled” for something they say or do in an effort to silence them. Well, today, Fr. Mike proposes the existence of a new and rising cancel culture—a culture [read more...]

King of Kings

Today, on this Solemnity of Christ the King, we can be happy because of the closeness of God to us. In the Gospel, we hear the Good Thief’s words: “Jesus, remember me when you come into Your Kingdom.” This is [read more...]