Love is what makes Lent from being a routine and turns it into a living encounter. Without love, Lent becomes a checklist, things we have to do, rules we have to follow. But when love is at the center, Lent becomes a journey of the heart.   Tomorrow we’ll step into the holy season of Great Lent, where we are called to increased Prayer, fasting, and generosity. They are not obligations forced upon us. They are pathways where love grows, deepens, and finds expression in our eve

Some of the most powerful moments in life happen while nothing seems to be happening. We live in a world that wants instant answers and quick results, but God often works in seasons of waiting. Waiting stretches our faith, deepens our trust, and teaches our hearts how to hope. Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord, the moment when the forty-day-old baby Jesus was brought to the temple by His mother, Mary, and Joseph. They came to fulfill the law, to of

In downtown Fort Lauderdale, there is a sculpture called “Thrive.” It’s impossible to miss. A towering female figure stands before you, split open, cracked, incomplete. She looks broken. Wounded. As if something has gone wrong. But when you look closer, inside the open space of her chest, there’s life, greenery, light, hope. What appears broken on the outside is the very place where life is flourishing. St. Paul says something very similar in his second letter to the Corinthi