August 25, 2025 Don’t Fall Prey to False Hope by Karen A. Avitabile Recently, I attended a fundraiser and bought tickets for a raffle of various items. It was one of those raffles where you purchase a sheet card with the same number on it, and you just rip off tickets...
August 24, 2025 The following was taken from a homily by Fr. Peter Cipriani, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown. The rock group REM sang “Everybody Hurts”: When your day is long And the night is yours alone When you’re sure you’ve had enough Of...
August 23, 2025 God Will Forgive Me, Right? by Laura Brennan On a perfect June Sunday, I walked the campus of Wesleyan University during warm-ups of my teenage son’s swim meet. These swim meet walks were a welcome break from the humid pool bleachers on days that began...
August 22, 2025 When At Your Heart, You Should Be Sad by Sir Walter Raleigh When at heart you should be sad,Pondering the joys we had,Listen and keep very still.If the lowing from the hillOr the toiling of a bellDo not serve to break the spell,Listen: You may be...
August 21, 2025 Memories I Wanted To Share … By Maureen Munger Grief can be so sneaky. In my childhood, my family and I had stayed with my mom’s cousin at his “Hotel” in the Catskills. Think of the movie “Dirty Dancing,” only Irish. The place was always noisy, with...
August 20, 2025 A Prayer for Compassion Toward Those Who Are Grieving God, our Lord, we seek Your presence this day as our anchor. Help us to help those whose losses are beyond their comprehension or ours, people with voids so vast so as to threaten consuming the...
