Never Lose Hope

by | May 25, 2018 | Uncategorized

The following article originally appeared in the newsletter of Renewal Ministries’ Country Coordinators Don and Pat Turbitt. Their daughter, Lisa Turbitt Cunha, passed away at age fifty-four on April 1, after a three-and-a-half year battle with breast cancer. She is...

A New Pentecost: Why Now?

by | May 18, 2018 | Ralph Martin

Pope John XXIII implored the whole Church to pray in preparation for the Council, asking God to send us a “new Pentecost,” and Benedict XVI called for the whole Church to pray for a renewal of Baptism and confirmation and be “baptized in the Spirit.” For more than 40...

A Conspiracy of Silence on Heaven

by | May 11, 2018 | Sister Ann Shields

…my father complained to me some years ago that no one talked about heaven. I see a couple of reasons for that phenomenon. First, no one wants to be definitive about anything these days. No one wants to take a stand, even though Scripture and the long tradition...

Personal Prayer—Being Present Is Essential

by | May 4, 2018 | Ralph Martin

  Prayer is simply the name that has traditionally been given to communication, or conversation, with God—it is awareness of Him, consciously being present to Him, and Him being present to us. Most of the laws we discover in the development of our human...