If I could read only one book series for the rest of my life, it would be a close tie between J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and the seven books that make up C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. Fortunately, I haven’t had to choose, and I go back to both series quite frequently.…

The opening prayer of our funeral liturgy includes these words: “O Lord, You are always more ready to hear us than we are to pray; and You know our needs before we ask, and our ignorance in asking.” As the years have gone by, I have found these words an ever greater source of comfort in…