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Good Shepherds are willing to lay down their lives for their sheep (see John 10:11). As spiritual leaders walking in the footsteps of Jesus,...

Spiritual leadership is the leadership of the Good Shepherd. As Jesus says, good shepherds know their sheep, and their sheep know them (see ...

This past Christmas Eve was such a blessed experience for me. I have created a custom of cooking a traditional Italian fish dinner and shari...

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emer...

Authority and obedience can never be divided, with some people having all the authority while others only have to obey. This separation caus...

People who live close together can be sources of great sorrow for one another. When Jesus chose his twelve apostles, Judas was one of them. ...

Religious leaders, priests, ministers, rabbis, and imams can be admired and revered but also hated and despised. We expect that our religiou...

In her beautiful novel about Maine, "The Country of the Pointed Firs", Sara Orne Jewett describes the ascent of a woman writer on ...

After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable. - A. J. Gossip ...

How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the st...

In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to make up our lives... We may refuse to make up our minds, but our lives g...

When I meditated on the word GUIDANCE, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will ...

I saw Jesus last week. He was wearing blue jeans and an old shirt. He was up at the church building. He was alone and working hard. For just...

Our most painful suffering often comes from those who love us and those we love. The relationships between husband and wife, parents and chi...

Christ came to bring joy: joy to children, joy to parents, joy to families and to friends, joy to workers and to scholars, joy to the sick a...

As we look at the stars and let our minds wander into the many galaxies, we come to feel so small and insignificant that anything we do, say...

Last year I was invited to enter the discernment process for a position that in every way appeared to be the fulfillment of my vocational pa...

Saints are people who are faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ... A faithful Christian life exhibits ongoing and active faith. Faith is tested ...

Trees that grow tall have deep roots. Great height without great depth is dangerous. The great leaders of this world - like St. Francis, Gan...

It's 4:00 a.m. I'm headed to the airport for an early flight. I stop at the doughnut shop. Eight or ten truck drivers are standing a...