Look who I found!

Look who I found at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help! It’s the Mother Thrice Admirable of Schoenstatt! She was hanging prominently in the vestibule…Who would have thought? We made a pilgrimage to the Shrine earlier this week. It’s the first and only Marian apparition in the United Read more

Meet Me at the Well

So, who’s the new kid on the block at CatholicMom.com? …ME! And I’m delighted to be part of the stable of columnists for this wonderful resource for Catholic mothers. Kudos to Lisa Hendey for her magnificent work. Thanks, Lisa! http://catholicmom.com/2011/01/06/meet-me-at-the-well/

New Year’s Resolution

My resolution for 2011: Talk less, listen more, and strive for perfect instrumentality in God’s hands. That’s a tall order, I know! It came to me yesterday in the grocery store, when I observed a mother and her two daughters. The girls must have been about 6 and 8 years Read more

The Words of a Dying Priest

“That together we will never lose the joy of living and of knowing ourselves as pampered children of the Blessed Mother and of the Lord.” These are the words of a dying priest – a Chilean Schoenstatt Father, Padre Horacio Rivas, diagnosed with stomach cancer that’s metastasized and is incurable. Read more