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 are not praying very deeply.” At first blush, this may appear to be a surprising statement. Yet, we can all recall doing something without appearing […]
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, in the Scriptures it seems that the better the person is, the more often and cruelly they are criticized! Have you ever read the Book […]
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 days a week at that time. That day I was charged with looking after our 2 and ½ year old grandson, Mikey, and 8-month-old granddaughter, Cate. I […]
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 through our hearts, or something unexpected in our lives. Learning to accept these trials with fortitude and courage is one way of dealing with them. […]
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 that regret is something of a universal, human experience! It’s no surprise to have regrets. After all, sometimes we take risks or do things that […]
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 Church, we use visuals for just about everything to remind us and bring us into prayer with God. Crucifixes, statues, images, and paintings all fall […]
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 in the First Book of Samuel. Clearly, I’m not the only one who savors this story as it is referenced again and again in situations […]
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 as something sacred, yet something unattainable for us mere mortals. It is left to those special ones chosen by Christ to do the “important” work […]
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 my journal entries while on the Camino de Santiago de Campostella in Spain. It certainly was easy to find God in those every days… I […]
What are you thinking about the Church these days??? The other day I was reading Scripture as I try to do everyday. The Book of Scripture I was reading was the First Book of Maccabees. I realize that this particular Book in Scripture isn’t one of the most familiar Books of the Old Testament but […]
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