October 11, 2024 “Prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”— St. Therese of Lisieux During her decades as a spiritual director, Sr. Pauline RSM often encountered...
October 10, 2024 “And when your earthly journey is finally at an end, you and I will come to be together once again.”— Donna Schilling Rob was sitting down for Sunday dinner when he got the phone call. Bill B. had died that morning in Hospice. A month before, he had...
October 9, 2024 In the end, in our grief, there are two paths that diverge. Sometimes we stand at their intersection and wonder and wonder and wonder which path to take. At first, they appear to be the same, but they’re not. One is the path that leads us nowhere, and...
October 8, 2024 “There’s no place like home..”― Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz So often, when an old friend or family member dies, we’ll go home for the first time in a long time … and a flood of memories pours over us when we return. Lainey Wilson’s song “Out of...
October 7, 2024 “The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life...
October 6, 2024 “Any woman who’d ever lost a child knew of the hollowness that remained within the soul.”― Brittainy C. Cherry Marianne hobbled into church. She didn’t have her cane. She was crying inconsolably, and several women rushed to help her to the pew, where...
