Pure love is what everyone desires. It does not come automatically. You must learn how to love and to foster it. Only Jesus, who is Love, grants us the gift of pure love, if we will only open up our hearts and ...

For several years I have been recalling a scene from our winter vacations. My sister was quarreling with my father. Not understanding what the row was all about, I asked him why she was mad at him. I was barely nine years old. ...

I am a “sober sexoholic.” Thanks to the power of God, I came out of this progressive deadly disease of addiction to lust, which destroys a human being emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. My problem with masturbation began at age 13. ...

I was born and raised in a Catholic family. I received the sacraments, attended Holy Mass regularly, and prayed every day. This was the case until 1993, when, at the age of sixteen, I happened to meet someone I became very fond of. J. was several ...

My name is Paulina. I am thirty-one years old. I have been married for twelve years. My husband Mark is thirty-six years old. We have two daughters: Caroline (aged twelve) and Veronica (aged seven). We are expecting our third child (Dominica), whom ...

We have been married for twenty years. The fruit of our love have been five sons, two of whom went to the Lord while still in my womb. We would like to share our experience of God’s love for us. In 2007, ...

I was raised in a Catholic family. The story of my estrangement from God began when I was finishing middle school. It was a time when martial arts films were fashionable in Poland. As a fifteen-year-old, I found them fascinating. Bruce Lee and other heroes filled ...

It was beautiful time when I learned that I was expecting. My husband and I wanted a daughter, since we already had two sons. Everything was progressing well. My previous pregnancies had gone off without a hitch. Alas, this time our joy was short-lived. When ...

“The Church and humanity entrust to you the great reality of that love which is the basis of marriage, the family, and the future. The Church and humanity firmly believe that you will bring about its rebirth; they firmly believe that ...

I understood that the mere desire to live a pure life was not enough. Working hard on oneself every day was essential I want to warn everyone against pornography. A supposedly innocent type of pornography is making itself felt all around us, not ...

That morning, on waking up, I said I wanted to go home. And that is when it hit me. I realized this was not a bad dream, but stark reality When, in January or February of 2004, a copy of LOA fell into my ...

We gave no thought to having a child. We felt we needed time to get on our feet, to find  better paying jobs, and pay off our debts Our little son just had his first birthday. He was born on a Sunday at ...

I am writing this piece to hearten those who wish to be parents and are having problems. I experienced this myself and can testify that with God all things are possible. Seek help and place your hope in Him alone. I married in 1986 ...

When in 2001 I was accepted as a college student in Kraków, I was one happy man. My dreams of studying in the Royal City had come true. The time flew by so fast. With each passing academic year, I ...

Looming somewhere in the background was the question, “why?” but this was quickly replaced by the prayer, “Jesus, I trust in You!” We have been married for almost four years. We have no children here on earth, but we do ...

Hamilton, Canada, August 6, 1999. Feast of the Transfiguration. For several weeks I had been the guest of my maternal uncle, who had come to Canada in the 1950s. As a child, he had experienced the hell of forced exile ...

I am a recovering alcoholic.  My sister and I were born into a family of working professionals. Military discipline and rigor were the order of the day at our home. My father was a pilot who demanded total submission to ...

The news coming from Iraq and Syria is alarming. It stirs us to prayer and reflection, but also to action. We received a letter from a Christian Egyptian reader who went to Iraq to help suffering followers of Christ. Unexpectedly, ...

The Lebanese scientist Raymond Nader had a mystical experience of the Real Presence of God. It took place on 10 November 1994, in the hermitage of St Sharbel in Annaya. On the evening of 17 April 2015, at the shrine ...

I entered the crowd of pilgrims. It was hot. We sang a beautiful litany during which I fervently asked St. Sharbel to heal me from my anxiety. I had been struggling with panic attacks for seven years. I had previously ...