I’m BUSY!
In an Advent article for our diocesan newspaper last December, Bishop Edward Weisenburger identified “busyness” as one of the five wounds of secularization, and a “scourge of our…
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Category: Conversion & Witness
Stories of grace at work.
Why are we still waiting?
In the old version of the mass, the priest would invite us to proclaim the mystery of faith, and we would sing: Christ has died. Christ is risen.…
Until God Opens the Next Door, Praise Him in the Hallway
I remember watching The Sound of Music as a little girl on television right around Easter. Yep, that was back in the pre-historic days, the days before DVDs…
Nothing Is Lost
Last night I was talking to my dear aunt on the phone and, after telling me that she’s been saying one rosary after another for a special intention,…
Hope in the Imperfect
I recently received a class-wide email from another mother of a child in my son’s preschool class. She had joined the class for a Thanksgiving celebration and stopped…
Advent: A Season of Hope
Readings for December 9, 2012: Second Sunday of Advent Faith, hope, and love. St. Paul, in I Corinthians 13:13, say these three are the bottom line. They are…
On the Necessity of Hell
“Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.” These are the words above the gates of Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy. And that is the true horror of hell:…
Are we too busy to be catechized?
I keep going back to a small portion of a blog post from Bishop Kicanis: A challenge for the synod fathers is to understand how we might better catechize…
Diary of a Miracle
Tuesday October 9, 2012: I guess I had to ‘bite the bullet.’ I could no longer put off my car repairs. My car has been running rough for…
Now and at the Hour of Our Death: Agony, Holy Water, Consolation
The elderly next door neighbor was in the hospital, dying, and my friend Janine had volunteered to babysit the great-grandson. “I’ve never seen anything so terrible,” the boy’s…