Pray for revival from the ‘decay within the church’
I do realize that all great revivals in the church have had two aspects — renewal in the Eucharist and renewal in the priesthood.
Articles by Father Michael Shields
How do we become people who are full of joy?
Joy in not in the new job, a better salary or even in that “perfect” someone. Indestructible, deep-down joy is not in what happens but in who created the happenings.
After the Resurrection, life can never be the same again
Look upon the cross — the cross worked. It changed the very core of human life. The world is different after our Savior died for us and rose from the dead.
‘Let me suffer and love with you Lord. Only with you’
I am in exile from my beloved Russia. I know that God’s plans for me are for my good, so what must I do to embrace this time? I must love and suffer.
Deep boredom is really a sickness within the soul
But there is a deeper boredom that is really a disease of our time. As 20th century author Reinhardt Kuhn observed, boredom “is not one theme among others; it is the dominant theme … a modern plague.”
Denying objective truth wounds — the Gospel heals
Relativism is the philosophy that says you have your truth and I have mine. This is the lie of our age — a philosophy that claims there is no objective truth outside ourselves.
How might we bring our kids and loved ones back home to the church?
Over the past 25 years, one of the most common prayer request I hear deals with a son or daughter who has left the church, or a husband or parent who no longer attends Mass, or a grandchild who has drifted from the faith.
It is past time to start a new sexual revolution
We were the 1960s folks with freedom and love. How did we end up like this?
Broken and hurting, we must give the world Jesus
The following is from the witness talk Father Michael Shields gave in August during the World Meeting of Families in Ireland.
Look East for the kind of faith that long endures
So would you die for your faith? We may never know that answer but it is being asked many times over in the Near and Middle East and in Africa and India.