March 22, 2025 The day that Dan learned his old friend Bernice had died, he vowed that he would go wherever he had to go for her funeral. Most likely, he thought, it would be in Vermont, where she had moved in her later years to live with her daughter. She suffered...
March 21, 2025 “Sometimes I am sad or angry or scared or confused.”— Mattie Stepanek Mattie J.T. Stepanek wanted to be remembered as “a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.” During his life, he published seven best-selling books of poetry and...
March 20, 2025 The following prayers come from the writings of Fernanda Moreira, who began a worldwide ministry of prayer for the dying. The prayers, offered in gratitude for Jesus’ sacrifice, are taken from the books, “The Way of the Cross” and “The Hidden Sufferings...
March 19, 2025 A Sweet Memory of Her Aunt on St. Joseph’s Feast Day By Karen A. Avitabile March 19 has always meant more to me than just St. Joseph’s Day, the feast day of St. Joseph who was husband of the Virgin Mary and the father of Jesus Christ. It signified that...
March 18, 2025 “Grief gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything. I can’t settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this, I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure...
March 17, 2025 ‘But your light still shines; it’s one small star to guide me. And it helps me to hold back the dark …’ John Woods was the love of Patricia’s life. They met at a wake when she was 18 and got married shortly after — two kids of Irish immigrants,...
