The Backpack: Essential Tools for Life is a human formation course for anyone with an interest in having a healthy and balanced mind, relationships, and spirituality.

"Miracles are not impossible when you keep company with Saints."

"The Spiritual Feminine" offers an invitation to all women to learn more about their distinctive strengths and spiritual contributions.

The Spiritual Feminine and The Spiritual Masculine: Previously known as Mothers and Fathers of the Church

Humility is not equivalent to self-hatred.

Mercy is not just God’s business. We are all called to offer kindness, compassion, and forgiveness to the people around us. 

How can we best manage conflict to promote more loving relationships with strong boundaries? 

True love asks for sacrifice and flexibility. True love absorbs the inconsistencies of humanity and remains faithful.

The belief cycle helps us to understand how our thoughts shape our realities and can create either order or chaos in the mind. 

Today we consider the image of the North Star alongside our basic apostolic teachings. If we keep our eyes on Christ on the mountain with the North star above him, we can’t go wrong. 

Active listening leads to greater understanding and connection. 

Heaven loves order. Heaven wants to bestow and create order and help us live an orderly existence in our time on Earth. 

Attachment Styles = enduring patterns of emotional and behavioral responses in close relationships, rooted in early childhood bonds with primary caregivers.

Be alert to his inspirations and trust that because it is not “judgment day,” it is “helping you get better day.”

Flow activity: a state of being in which you are totally absorbed in the present moment and the task at hand. Being “in the zone.” 

Lent is a time to re-focus our souls. We are eternal beings designed to share our earthly experience with God, and Lent reminds us to re-align ourselves along this trajectory.