December 10, 2024 “The Missionaries must be ready and willing to go and proclaim the love of God to the ends of the Earth.” — Blessed Maria Emilia Riquelme y Zayas The Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament & Mary Immaculate began in Spain in 1896 and have...
December 9, 2024 It’s easy to think of the Virgin Mary as a saint who is somehow impervious to pain and disassociated from humanity. Of course, nothing is further from the truth. Her suffering was real, and she knew grief from a young age, in addition to having the...
December 8, 2024 “This pain leaves you without words.” — Pope Francis Pope Francis describes it as an inexpressible pain “that leaves you without words.” A pain that defies human logic. It is the pain that comes with the death of a child. His recent worldwide prayer...
December 7, 2024 “Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.” — Rev. Timothy Keller The following is an excerpt...
December 6, 2024 “In God’s Kingdom are gifts we cannot yet comprehend — wonderful gifts of life and immortality — and when we enter it, we will experience abundance at every step. But the Kingdom is not just a future idea with no present reality. I hear from many a...
December 5, 2024 When Joe saw his friend Dina’s obituary, he thought back to the first time he had met her and her husband Angelo at lunch in Southbury, where they lived in a senior residence. They spent the afternoon laughing and talking about mutual friends and...
