Many moons ago, I was a business major at the University of Maryland. One of the concepts we studied was synergy, which is the working together of different components of an organization that produces better results than the individual components working separately. The saying, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” is another way of expressing synergy. As we celebrate Trinity Sunday...

People sometimes ask, “What’s more important, Christmas or Easter?” And the answer is . . . Pentecost! I joke, but in a certain respect Pentecost is the most important feast of the Church’s year. This is because Pentecost is the culminating event of God’s plan of salvation. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Mary fifty days after Easter, which signifies the birth of Holy Mother Church...

Blessed Feast of the Ascension of our Lord! 40 days after his Resurrection, Christ ascended into heaven in the presence of his amazed disciples. The life of every Christian has an upward tilt to it. Our thoughts should tend towards the highest truths, and our hearts should tend towards...