January/February 2021 – St. Angela Merici
St. Angela Merici
1474–1540
Feast: January 27
- Published in Saints of the Month
SPIRITUALITY
What’s your New Year’s faith resolution?
We asked, and you answered! Catholics from around the Archdiocese of Seattle share their New Year's faith resolutions.
- Written by Northwest Catholic
How confession and Communion go hand in hand
Do you want the Eucharist to change your life? One of the most fruitful ways we can celebrate the Year of the Eucharist as the people of God is to look at the lives of the saints who have gone before us. Seeing how the Eucharist changed their lives offers a pattern for how it can change our lives.
- Written by Father Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P.
Was there really a star that led the wise men to Bethlehem?
The second chapter of Matthew’s Gospel relates the journey of the Magi, also known as wise men or kings. We celebrate this event on the solemnity of the Epiphany (January 3 this year).
Family: A school of deeper humanity
Christians see the world differently. Many in our culture see life as an opportunity to define ourselves and live our dreams. In contrast, we Christians follow Jesus who “humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8).
- Written by Deacon Eric Paige
12 New Year's eucharistic resolutions
It is common to begin a new year defining 12 resolutions that will help us to be better. As we celebrate the Year of the Eucharist in the Archdiocese of Seattle, I propose the following resolutions to benefit from this jubilee and grow even closer to the Eucharistic Jesus.
- Written by Mauricio I. Pérez
Finding God in silence
When I was young and somehow given the chance to stay home alone, I loved to sit in the quiet house and hear what I could hear. It was strange to me that even without my sisters playing or my great-grandmother’s television blaring, the house was not quiet. I could hear the hum of the refrigerator and the lull of the cars on the main street beyond ours — even our house crackled as it settled.
- Written by Shemaiah Gonzalez