August 31, 2026 Hope By Paul E. Tupper It was coming up on two years of being widowed, and I was really starting to feel the effects of being alone. My wife had passed on August 31. I could deal with it on a given day, but it was very difficult to contemplate the...
August 30, 2026 St. Jeanne Jugan, Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, was born in 1792 when France was in great turmoil during the revolution. Her father was a fisherman who was lost at sea, and so her family was destitute. When she was still young, she began...
August 29, 2026 Mining the Heart By Arlene Gay Levine Let us kneelbefore the streamof our lives mining for thosegolden moments whenwe see right through to the real: kindness,laughter, innocence,the light of all things Then, slowlyrelease all the restallow it to flow...
August 28, 2026 A 2009 oil painting of the “Rainbow Bridge,” by artist Stella Violano. “The way I see it, Rainbow Bridge leads to a vast and beautiful place that is wide open and not crowded where we all live happily together forever,” Violano says. “Ms. Clyne-Rekhy...
August 27, 2026 Dear St. Monica,troubled wife and mother,many sorrows pierced your heartduring your lifetime.Yet you never despaired or lost faith.With confidence, persistenceand profound faith, you prayed dailyfor the conversion of your beloved husband,Patricius, and...
August 26, 2026 Not a day goes by when Ann doesn’t think about her beloved husband Paul who died after 70 years of marriage. Their love was eternal. And George always told his wife Lillian, “You’ll miss me when I’m gone.” And she laughed. Today, as she approaches her...
