Scepter Blog Corner

As we prepare to celebrate the feast of St. Joseph on March 19th, let us dive deeper into our love and appreciation for this great saint!Joseph was chosen before the beginning of the world to be the foster-father of Jesus. God chose to be born of Marywithout sinand to be cared for by Joseph a manwith original sin.

From today's meditation from In Conversation with God on Confession Our Sins: Sacramental Confession; a meeting with Christ. Be mindful of thy mercy, O Lord, and of thy steadfast love, we read in the Entrance Antiphon of today's Mass.

As a family, we can try to identify ourselves more with this season by doing activities that foster this intentionality in our relationship with God and with one another. Here are four things you can do this season to foster deeper relationships with God and with one another.

The Stations of the Cross, or Way of the Cross, is a Catholic tradition that helps us contemplate the final moments of Christ’s life from his condemnation to his being laid in the tomb.

We’re sharing a number of spiritual resources for Lent 2022 to help you make this 40-day season one in which you truly can draw closer to God. These days of prayer, fasting and almsgiving can become truly transformative, if we choose to use the time well.

In honor of National Marriage Week, here are 8 books to strengthen your marriage. Whether you are newly married, engaged, or have been working at it for years, these titles will surely open new horizons in your head and in your heart. 

Let us fill our lives with true leisure and make them ever more fruitful. We can do this by practicing three simple daily habits. The habit of personal prayer, public prayer, and spiritual reading. Included Here are seven books for summer spiritual reading.

A wave of heat drove the group back further. The doors began to glow and throb. There was a loud mix of rumbling and crackling as an intense, blue flame suddenly appeared at the top and sizzled its way down the long seam separating the two doors. Then, all was quiet. The doors stood dull and motionless for a moment, before the two panels slowly creaked open.

when the hearts of fathers are turned toward their children, and the hearts of children toward their fathers, then there is no curse. Human existence is beautiful and happy. On the other hand, when the hearts of fathers are not turned toward their children, or when the hearts of children are turned away from their fathers, there is a sort of curse on human existence; it becomes complicated and difficult.

The need for true paternity has never been greater than it is today. We are in a world of orphans, and so many people are disoriented and suffering because they haven’t had the chance of meeting someone in their lives who was a true father.