It’s heart season. Go into Walgreens and there are hearts everywhere. You’ll see paper hearts, chocolate hearts, candy hearts and more. We’re approaching Valentine’s Day, February 14. For many this is a day of love or a night of romance. Meet your sweetheart for dinner or dessert? For others, it is a day of heartbreak— recalling a broken relationship and or love that was not returned.  

Many of us fill every quiet moment with sound — music, conversation, distraction — without realizing what we’re avoiding. In this short reflection, Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ, invites us to reconsider silence not as emptiness, but as a place of rest, attentiveness, and encounter.

My dad died in March. He lived with kidney cancer for seven years. I preached at his funeral. I am mourning my father, and I am asking God the Father for mercy and help.

We are named for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This fall we unveil a new logo to emphasize our name and mission.

A young woman prays quietly, kneeling at a wooden pew in a cool stone chapel. It’s a night like many others. A cold breeze squeezes through the wooden window panes …