The healing Jesus offers begins in the heart and reaches us, above all, through the sacraments of the Church. The prophet Isaiah announced the suffering Servant: “by his wounds we were healed” (Is 53:5). Saint Peter repeats these words as he looks at the cross of Christ (1 Pt 2:24). The wounded face we contemplate in the Holy Face is the face of the One who took our sorrows upon himself. Jesus still heals today, and he does so mainly through the sacraments. In Confession, he

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

The first couple of the Holy Family also faced doubts, changes and fear. They went through it all trusting in God, together. Joseph did not understand everything at once. On learning that Mary was with child, he thought of quietly sending her away so as not to expose her. But he listened to the angel and took Mary into his home (Mt 1:18-24). He chose to trust. Then came the journey to Bethlehem, the flight into Egypt, the new beginning in Nazareth. And there was the day they