Garrett Johnson
When you look at yourself what to do you see? Is your gaze one of love and truth, or judgment and despair? Do you understand the significance of God’s mercy? Or, have you rejected it from your heart? The video tries to tap into the drama of every human heart that...
Many years have passed since our beloved Saint John Paul II passed on and entered into God's loving embrace, yet his presence is still strongly felt today. This video reminds us why JPII was so great, why he was able to reach so many hearts, why he become like a...
Today's video narrates the story of Easter from a child's perspective. As with a few other videos that we have posted of this nature, the child's simplicity has a way of penetrating past our routinized indifference and restoring in us a sense of simplicity and...
Happy Easter Sunday! Let this be a moment in which we renew our baptismal promises, our desire for holiness, our determination to die to sin, and our conviction that Christ gives us new life! Today's joy is much more than just a feeling, it is a new existence. It is a...
Our friends at Outside da Box and Likability have once again produced an excellent video in service of the faith. "That 1 Day" helps us to understand why that fateful day so many years ago, the day in which a supposedly ordinary man died as a criminal, is so important...
Last night at the Grammy's, Ed Sheeran took home one of the biggest awards, Song of the Year, with his hit song "Thinking Out Loud." Ed Sheeran first became popular in the United States after making a guest appearance with Taylor Swift in 2012, but the singer...
An impressive video that draws an analogy between the process that the wood must undergo in order to be formed and our own process to be made into a new creation in Christ. It is Christ himself who lays down the path before us by his example on the Cross, manifesting...
In watching this beautiful video, one fundamental idea came to me: Christ wants my heart. All that He did and continues to do is in hopes that I will allow him to truly enter into the core of my being, to allow his life to enter into mine and to make it full, to...
The fundamental question of our lives is: Who is Jesus Christ for me? Am I one that praises him merely with psalms and shouts of joy? Or, is my relationship deeper and authentic? Is it real? Christ is without a doubt a "sign of contradiction." To follow him means to...
Today's video speaks to us, above all, through its simplicity. The Passion of Christ, an event celebrated and remembered in so many forms, enriched with symbols, meditations, and music, was in itself very simple. The symbols were all too real: a hammer and a few...
Pope Francis has reminded us of a fundamental truth: there is no Christianity without the Cross. Daily, we are presented with the temptation of St. Peter: Lord, “I will follow you, but let us not speak of the Cross; I will follow you on other terms, but without the...
Caught up in a burst of joy after hearing of the election of Cardinal Bergoglio as Pope, Negre de Alonso, a senator from Argentina, interrupts her discourse and lets forth a wave of joy, gratitude, and pride, as she shares her love for the Church and for the newly...
In seeing this video and, above all, in having lived the experience myself, I can't help but ask: How could you not love being Catholic? To feel the waves of emotion billowing through the crowds of faithful, to perceive their hope and faith in God's promise: "Never...
Is there any experience like that of being elected as the Vicar of Christ? Where does the strength and courage come from to utter those fateful words, "I accept." We have decided to share this clip from the movie Karol: The Man who Became Pope which offers a...
The story of the prodigal son is much more than a parable told long ago. It is a drama that is lived out in each one of our lives. It continues to speak, to open hearts, and to change lives because it portrays our daily drama with shocking clarity and uncovers those...
The video that we are presenting is called "Defining a Prodigy." It is an excellent reflection about the existing richness of each individual person and the importance of discovering one's own vocation. We've asked some fellow Catholics to give you perspective on how...
Today's video offers a brief and condensed explanation of Holy Week, a time in the liturgical calendar very rich in meaning and symbols. It is important that we continue to deepen the meaning and the reality behind these symbols. This Holy Week, we are invited to...
To go to Mass, to enter into a moment of prayer, to say the name of “Jesus,” to meditate upon his death and resurrection, what does it all really mean? Is it just a routine, a family tradition, a myth, a joke? Is there anything real behind it? Nominated "Best...
When was the last time that you were honest, truly honest? How many of us keep holding onto that delusional aspiration of a safe and comfortable relationship built on external smiles, hollow dialogues, and cheesy silence-fillers. Isn’t it obvious that it is destined...
In today's video, 22-year-old film producer Brian Ivee undertakes a new documentary "The Drop Box." It recounts the story of a South Korean Pastor Lee Jongrak who decided to do something about the hundreds of unwanted babies that are abandoned on the streets of Seoul,...
The desert experience is one in which Christ lives out to the extreme the question: what is truly important in life? We too must ask ourselves this question. How many times do we invest our time, our efforts, our worries in things that really don’t matter? What is...
I’m sure many will, in the following days, be curious as to how the Papal election process takes place. Much of this will focus in on the practical details and perhaps no few reporters will make some wry comment about this “transparent election” which they seem to...
I'm making a brief reflection on the Pope's decision this morning, speaking for all of us at Catholic-link, I would like to thank our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, for his strength, his courage, and his love. This man, weak and frail, has drawn me closer to...
Today’s video is based on a poem written by a North American writer, Charles Bukowski called “Nirvana.” The poem tells the story of a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the “way to somewhere.” He is “cut loose from purpose” and lives a sort of aimless...
It's never to late too change. It's never too late to love and choose life. Forty years ago, as a young, pregnant woman, Norma McCorvey played a key role in the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. Now McCorvey, the ‘Roe’ in the...