How to discern God’s will is one of Fr. Mark-Mary’s favorite topics. He has some principles he uses to guide his discernment. He narrows these principles down to four: needs, responsibilities, desires, and capacities.

A powerful argument for staying close to the Catholic faith is the beauty of the Church’s calendar of feasts and fasts. That the feast days of St. Monica and her son, St. Augustine, are back-to-back on our calendar beautifully reminds us of the transforming graces of humble, prayerful Catholic parents.

Catholics are often accused of being superstitious. We treat sacred objects as something set apart, something that lifts our hearts and minds to the Lord. And that reverence can often be misunderstood as superstition or idolatry. But what about when you as a Catholic are questioning the line between reverence and superstition? How do you know when to draw that line?

We know that each of us has a guardian angel, but what about the Son of God? Peter called Father Simon SaysTM with this fascinating question: “Jesus being both God and Man, did he have a guardian angel?”

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