This past week, we began the period of Ordinary Time, the counted (i.e., ordinal) weeks in the liturgical calendar. Today’s readings inspire us to think about our calling from God. As on the feast of ...

The New Testament quotes three Old Testament books more than any others: Deuteronomy, the Psalms, and Isaiah. The latter is quoted, in particular, because it contains messianic prophecies that point ...

Pope Benedict XVI tailored his message before the Sunday Angelus around the "divine call" of the Lord presented in today's Liturgy. The Holy Father taught that through the examples of Isaiah, Peter ...

Venerable Henriette Delille answered God’s call to care for people who were poor, sick, and in need of education. A healer and teacher to those enslaved and free in New Orleans, Delille recognized and ...

The Prophet Isaiah went to the Temple to worship and there he had an experience with God. Isaiah “saw” three particular things about God. First, he saw God’s holiness: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD ...

The call of God is the expression of God’s nature, not of our nature. There are strands of the call of God providentially at work for us which we recognize and no one else does. It is the threading of ...