December 28, 2024 The following blog was written by Bob DeWitt two years ago for Pittsburgh Catholic Online and is worth sharing: Poem Comforts Those Grieving “In the last two years, Bill Mitchell and his wife Mary have lost two dozen relatives, friends and neighbors....
December 27, 2024 In our grief, God reaches out to us, even if we’re angry, and blame him for all the pain in our lives. He isn’t deterred. He reaches out and he keeps on reaching out because he’s God, and as St. John said, “God is love.” Pure and infinite love like...
December 26, 2024 A Love Letter from Jesus My dear friend,How are you? I just had to send you this letter to tell you how much I love you and care about you. I saw you yesterday as you were walking with your friends. I waited all day, hoping you would also talk to me....
December 25, 2024 Two years after his wife was fatally burned when her dress caught fire, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s oldest son Charles was seriously wounded in the Battle of New Hope Church by a Confederate bullet. He had joined the Union Army without telling...
December 24, 2024 “Sweet Little Jesus Boy” is a spiritual Christmas song that was composed by Robert MacGimsey in 1934. The first singer to record it was Lawrence Tibbett, but over the years it has been sung by many others, including Robert Merrill, Casting Crowns,...
December 23, 2024 Late on Christmas Even when all the hubbub was over and the family was gone and the Feast of the Seven Fishes was finished, Joe sat in silence and looked at the lights on the Christmas tree and thought about all the Christmases past, so many of them...
