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It doesn't take something as dramatic as an affair, or losing several thousand from the savings account in a gambling casino, to erode trust in your marriage. It can be as simple as a couple of broken promises. A few commitments not met. The last minute cancellation of a date again. A failure to ever redeem the "rain check" you promised last time. Maybe each is a separate incident. Maybe each is followed by an apology, and a promise to forgive. And yet...even as they forgive,

At the Easter Vigil, the Church proclaims what it has always proclaimed: the tomb is empty, and those who came to see it were changed forever. Mary Magdalene did not simply receive a private consolation. She saw, and then she went and told others. The resurrection was not meant to be hidden. It was meant to be witnessed, and through that witness, the world was invited to believe. Our marriages carry a quieter but related calling. In a culture growing skeptical of lifelong com

The final hours before the crucifixion was a time of fear. Judas, afraid and overwhelmed, had sold Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. Peter, confronted by a servant girl in a courtyard, denied three times that he even knew the man. And on the cross itself, Jesus cried out the words of Psalm 22: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" If fear could bring Peter to his knees and draw that cry from the lips of Christ, we should not be surprised when it brings us to our knees