Featured Resource Articles for this Week 
Welcome to our Resource Section. Every week we will bring you special features that highlight the richness of our Catholic faith. To celebrate Monday’s feast of St. Jane de Chantal, bestselling author Bert Ghezzi gives us a glimpse of this woman’s strength and perseverance. In addition to your Wednesday meditation on the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, author Jeanne Kun offers us another opportunity to deepen our understanding of this challenging parable. And finally, Jacqueline Syrup Bergan and Sister Marie Schwan offer reflections on Psalm 51 – one of the most moving, personal prayers in the whole Bible. As always, we welcome your comments.
A Cry for Mercy (Psalm 51)
Excerpt from Forgiveness, A Guide for Prayer
"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." Continue »
The Outrageous Generosity of God
The Laborers in the Vineyard (Excerpted from Treasures Uncovered, The Parables of Jesus)
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage [a denarius], he sent them into his vineyard. Continue »
Saint Jane de Chantal (1572–1641)
Perseverance (Excerpt from The Heart of a Saint, Ten Ways to Grow Closer to God by Bert Ghezzi)
Contradictions, sickness, scruples, spiritual aridity, and all the inner and outward torments are the chisel with which God carves his statues for paradise. —St. Alphonsus Liguori Continue »
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Stand At The Door and Knock
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me."