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
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/
Here’s my latest on Faith & Family: http://www.faithandfamilylive.com/features/once_in_never_out
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
“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
Did you have a nice Christmas? Seems that’s “the” question to ask at this time of year. Most of us can truthfully answer in the affirmative. Some of us, sadly, paint on a smile and give an insincerely positive answer, masking the pain and suffering that we actually experienced. Not Read more
Waiting to Become Prophets And you, O child, shall be called prophet of the Most High; for you shall go before the Lord to prepare straight paths for him, giving his people a knowledge of salvation in freedom from their sins. All this is the work of the kindness of Read more