There’s a sense of comfort in the knowledge that God is always listening. That no matter where we are, who we are, how desperate we are, how imperfect we are, that we can pick up the prayer phone, ...

This past week, we began the period of Ordinary Time, the counted (i.e., ordinal) weeks in the liturgical calendar. Today’s readings inspire us to think about our calling from God. As on the feast of ...

I listened attentively while cooking dinner at my parents’ house to my mother reading Bible stories to my 3-year-old son. They were at the part of the story of the sons of Jacob, when Joseph’s ...

There is a place in life where you know what you are called to do. You understand the sacrifices that are required, yet fear whispers, I cannot do it. It is in these moments that the Word of God calls ...

How community helps us discern our callings. When the Emmy Awards honored Fred Rogers with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, he did something that took everyone in the room off guard. The beloved ...

Sometimes the church that seems the perfect fit doesn’t want to try us on. And sometimes the church that seems wrong turns out to be ever so right. A call to a specific church can be as mysterious as ...

When the late Pope Francis visited New York City in 2015, a group of students at Elmhurst’s Cathedral Prep Seminary, the only remaining high school seminary in the United States, reflected on the ...