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Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center

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Spiritual Break with Mater Dolorosa

Is Beauty a Moment of Prayer?

April 26, 2019 | Comments Off on Is Beauty a Moment of Prayer?

Is Beauty a Moment of Prayer?   The spiritual masters, including St. Paul of the Cross can be often heard saying “When you are aware that you are praying, you […]

How Critical Are You?

April 17, 2019 | Comments Off on How Critical Are You?

How critical are you? Even good people get criticized.  If you ever read the Scriptures, you can’t help but realize how devastating constant criticism of someone can be.  In fact, […]

The Pearl of Great Price

April 5, 2019 | Comments Off on The Pearl of Great Price

  About 8 years ago around this time of year, our daughter-in-law was hospitalized due to a medication reaction. My husband and son are both CPA’s and were working 7 […]

Unshakable Inner Peace

April 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Unshakable Inner Peace

Unshakable Inner Peace   Sometimes life creates a lot of pressure on us. This might be a new trial, the illness of a loved one, where we feel the pain […]

What regrets hold you hostage??

March 11, 2019 | Comments Off on What regrets hold you hostage??

Have you ever done anything you regretted?  If you haven’t, I want to meet you because I’ve never met anyone who didn’t regret some things in their lives.  It seems […]

Can a photograph be a prayer?

March 10, 2019 | Comments Off on Can a photograph be a prayer?

Can a photograph be a prayer? During a recent retreat program this year, I briefly mentioned the prayer form known as Visio Divina, which means Divine Seeing. In the Catholic […]

What’s your favorite story from Scripture?

February 22, 2019 | Comments Off on What’s your favorite story from Scripture?

What’s your favorite story from Scripture? Many of us have favorite stories from Scripture.  At least, I do.  One of my favorites is the story of David and Goliath found […]

God's Voicemail

February 15, 2019 | Comments Off on God's Voicemail

When we hear those infamous words “the call,” those of my generation think about it as something restricted to saints or vocations for the religious life. We view the words […]

God’s Voicemail

February 15, 2019 | Comments Off on God’s Voicemail

When we hear those infamous words “the call,” those of my generation think about it as something restricted to saints or vocations for the religious life. We view the words […]

Joy Reaches Down to My Soul

February 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Joy Reaches Down to My Soul

Recently, while attending my own weekend retreat with my parish, I found Dr. Michael Cunningham’s conference on “God in the Everyday” inspired me to go back and read one of […]

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