November 16, 2024 Tree of Remembrance Scheduled at Cemetery Catholic Cemeteries of the Diocese of Bridgeport will once again light a Remembrance Tree during the Christmas season in honor of loved ones who have died. The annual tree lighting and blessing on December 5...
November 15, 2024 “And it is only as God becomes more remote—a God who is all-loving only in the abstract, not in the sense of having suffered and died for us to rescue us from evil—that he seems unbearably callous in the face of pain. In short, theism without...
November 14, 2024 “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe For 12 years, Thomas Moore was a monk in the Servites, a Catholic religious order. He later became a psychotherapist, whose writings have...
November 13, 2024 “The sad part about getting old is that no one can see you’re still young on the inside.”— Anonymous When Lenny finally retired, he started going to daily Mass, and he was somewhat surprised at what he found. Many of the morning Mass-goers were in...
November 12, 2024 Weeping Over the Death of a Friend By Wang Wei After your burial on Stone Tower Mountain,The mourners in their chariots wind downward through dark pinesand cypresses.Your bones interred beneath the white clouds, your lifeforever ended;Only the...
November 11, 2024 Dear Lord Jesus,Today I bring to You the brokenness I experience in my mind, will and emotions. I bring to You my wounded heart over my loss. I admit to You, Lord, that I am powerless of myself, over myself to change myself and deal with this. Only...
