The internet can draw you away from God or bring you closer. It all depends on who is in charge: you or the screen. Saint Paul wrote: whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely and gracious — think about these things (Phil 4:8). That advice applies to everything that comes in through our eyes on our phones every day. Saint Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who died in 2006 at the age of 15, liked video games and computers like any young person. But he used that talent to

Before any rule or demand, faith begins with a look: Jesus looks at you with love. A rich young man ran up to Jesus and asked what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Before answering, the Gospel says that Jesus, looking at him, loved him (Mk 10:21). Christ’s first gesture was not a demand; it was a look of love. That is what the devotion to the Holy Face reminds us: the face of Jesus is not that of a distant judge. It is the face of someone who knows your struggles, your m

A young Carmelite showed that holiness fits into the small things of everyday life, done with love. Thérèse entered Carmel at only 15 and died at 24, in 1897. She founded no works and made no great journeys. Even so, she was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church. What she taught was a simple way: to trust God as a child trusts its father, and to turn each small gesture into an act of love. She chose to be called Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face. She contemplated th