by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . September 29, 2020 .

by Matt Nelson . May 24, 2019 .

by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . October 2, 2018 .

by Fr. David Stavarz . March 6, 2018 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . February 18, 2018 .

On this first Sunday of Lent, the Church asks us to meditate on animals and angels. For Christ, in his own person, joins together the disparate elements of creation, the spiritual and the material, angels and wild beasts. There are, of course, angels and wild beasts in all of us. We are all a microcosm of the ethereal and the corporeal, the spiritual and the physical.

by Rozann Lee . October 5, 2017 .

by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . October 2, 2017 .

by Dominicans of the Province of St. Joseph . September 29, 2017 .

by Rozann Lee . September 29, 2016 .

by Bishop Robert Barron . February 14, 2016 .

Lent is a time of paring down — a time spent in the desert, if you will — as exemplified by Jesus' 40 days of fasting in these arid, barren lands. He was tempted three times by Satan, and rejected each attempt, giving glory to God at every turn. This is the lesson for us, that we make God the center of our lives and not test him. We are here to do his will, which is clarified through our own Lenten sacrifices.