In the final installment of Letters to a Young Catholic, Lenny DeLorenzo offers a lesson in how to find joy. He offers examples of a friend who had a brain tumor, Mother Teresa and Malcolm Muggeridge, who found joy serving the people
On January 29, as winter storm Kenan pummeled the northeast, the Sisters of Life made the news when they took advantage of the winter weather and sledded around Central Park in New York City. The photos of white habits, big coats, snow
In her recent Taking Note column, Kathryn Jean Lopez relates the paschal joy she is feeling this Easter season. Facing the darkness of the culture, she wrote, “We are called to be living monstrances in the midst of it — and wherever
Like the women at the tomb whose sorrow turned to joy after the Resurrection, Christians also are called to be joyful witnesses to Christ's victory over death amid the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said. In an editorial published April 17 by the
Texas youth minister Ali Hoffman, whose video of her and her family dancing and lip-syncing to “Hold My Hand” by Jess Glynne has been viewed more than 11 million times, writes for Our Sunday Visitor about the source of her joy and
Mary Beth Baker, senior acquisitions editor at OSV, writes how she encountered a blind man in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station who made her see what joy looks like in ordinary life. Real Christian joy is a daily choice to put yourself in
I think everyone can agree that the recent weeks have been hard. The sinking feeling we all had upon hearing of the mass shootings in California, Texas and Ohio have become all too familiar. “Another one” — that’s what ran through my
I’m not sure where I first heard the suggestion that Christians need to think about the word “joy” as an acronym: Jesus first, others second, yourself last. This explanation hit so close to home that, to this day, the catchy phrase