joy

Editor's Note: This essay won Third Prize in the 2024 TLC Student Essay Contest. Amid the complexities of modern life, many pursue enduring happiness yet...

Joy, hope, and wonder spilled out from every human heart in the presence of Almighty God and the mystery of human love.

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he existed in the form of God, did not regard...

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By John Mason Lock A friend recently posted on social media that he had gone to the bookstore, and they were out of Boccaccio's The Decameron....

Evangelism isn’t about pamphlets and theories and door-to-door sales pitches. Instead, it’s living life from a place of profound joy and letting that joy be definitive and overflowing. For us Christians, that joy is given to us by the grace of our Savior Jesus Christ. To share it, we don’t need pamphlets and marketing strategies. We simply need the joy that comes with the story and living our lives defined by that joy.

Abp. Fulton J. Sheen: “The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.”