Family life, even when it is crazy, is part of God's plan for our salvation. The home is the domestic church and we shouldn't think that the often crazy, loud, or rambunctious environment of raising children is devoid of God's blessing.

God's love shows forth in the birth of Jesus.

St. Joseph exemplifies the virtue of faith.

Our parents matter. Our destiny is in their hands. We don't think frequently enough of the fact that Adam and Eve are truly our parents and the nature we have comes from them. As we approach Christmas, we can see that God's rescue mission for humanity begins by reconstituting our family based upon grace. The Holy Family is God's beginning of a new human family with God as our Heavenly Father, Our Lady and the Church as our Mother, and Jesus as our brother.

Our Lady is the best...because of God. The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is a sign of the triumph of grace over the devil, sin, and death.

A brisk cold plunge in the icy lake this week gave me an opportunity to be reminded of the amazing gift of God's creation. What is the meaning of creation? God love you and turtles.

On the Solemnity of Christ the King we reflect on the gospel imperative to serve God above all others and to participate in social and political life based upon the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.

On this Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, we focus on the establishment of a church building, but the dedication of the basilica is about more than a church building. This feast is instructive to us about the importance of the liturgy in God's plan for our salvation.

All Souls day is a time to remember all the people who have died and are going to heaven, eventually, but they are still in need of purification in order to be ready for the blessed union with God that we call "Heaven." Let's dive into life after death.

Faith allows you to see things from God's perspective, and his perspective is true and life altering. The words of the gospel today about uprooting mulberry trees is a great challenge to our illusions of self-reliance and self-derived merit in the Kingdom of God. Mumford and Sons helps us with some images to see the world hanging upside down in dependence on the Maker.