This meditation is based on the writings of Pope Benedict XVI. On this Quasimodo Sunday, let us be friends of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the model penitent. As we follow Jesus into the desert for 40 days, let us pray, fast and give alms.

In various cultures, public grieving, public expression of grief, lamentation is the common place.

Learn how St. Anthony of Padua describes the spirituality of Noah's ark. He teaches a lesson in the universal call to holiness.

Gerald Johnson was taken to hell and witnessed the horrible tortures of the demons. God gave him a second chance and we too find a lesson.

Examining the tradition of Sacred Scripture, we see in both the New and Old Testaments the existence of the angels of God.

Examine the full meaning of St. Paul's teaching in Romans that "love is the fulfillment of the law."

The first miracle in Christ's public life was the changing of water into wine at Cana's wedding feast. This miracle has lessons for us today

In the artistic patrimony of the Church we find a traditional way of depicting the royal genealogy of Jesus Christ – the “Jesse Tree."

In the Gospels, a woman touches the tassels of Christ's garment, as she seeks Christ's healing touch, putting her heart's trust in Him.

Learn about the Church's belief in purgatory is based in Scripture and Tradition.

The Pharisees and the Herodians cook up a plot to entrap Jesus. They begin with false flattery, but Christ is not fooled.

The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus has its literal meaning, but the Fathers of the Church also have read it with allegorical meaning.

“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” (Luke 14:3) Jesus asks of the lawyers and Pharisees, and the answer would seem to be self-evident.

Learn of the just judgment of God that fell upon Salome for asking for the head of St. John the Baptist on a platter.

In these times we need God's help, must not be discouraged by the state of things. Fear is not for us. We are merely passing though.

Death comes for the rich and the poor, for saints and for sinners, and so St. Paul tells us that we must be “sober and watchful” in life.

It is much easier to follow the crowd than to follow Jesus, the Shepherd of our souls.

In Nazareth, Christ spent most of His earthly life with Mary and Joseph. In the home, loves grows in the sanctuary of peace and silence.

In our religious life we seek Divine enlightenment and eternal truth through prayer. The Prophet Micah instructs us to walk humbly with God.