Heaven is Saint Friendly
The new movie, “Heaven is for Real”, has everyone talking! It is delightful, affirming and well-worth seeing. Yet, the primary source of “conflict” or tension in the movie is one that may puzzle some...
View ArticleEveryone Needs Another Mother
As my son prepares to leave home for college in just a few months, I feel a bit lost. Who’s going to be there to say, “It’s late and time to get to bed. Put those things away now. Are you feeling OK?”...
View ArticleAbout seeing… REALLY SEEING
When a child comes into being, he is truly in his parents and they are in him. There is a union that is powerful and provides an important life lesson. When the child is two years old, he imagines the...
View ArticleHow Big is the Container of Your Heart?
Here in New Mexico, where the drought has hardened our soil making gardening so-very-un-fun, rain is considered a miraculous blessing. I was thinking about this today because it is kind of like the...
View ArticleReverence Please… Jesus is Present!
Our teenagers just came back from a Steubenville Retreat. They are fired up. They have had a palpable sense of the presence of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Then they come to Mass in the parish and that...
View ArticleMother Mary and the Other Marys — Saints for Today’s Girls
Imagine living the life of a prostitute from age 12 to 29! Prostitution leaves a woman hardened and scarred. It must surely turn the heart into a stone because sex, which is a God-ordained gift of...
View ArticleThe Treasure is in Heaven
Why did God make me? God made me to know Him, love Him and serve Him and to be happy with Him in heaven forever. (Baltimore Catechism) But mankind is not an understanding people [they are unwise and...
View ArticleFrom Memory to Hope
In the modern world people often talk about the importance of harmonizing mind, body and spirit. But in the 1500s, St. Teresa referred to a different three. She said we need to train the “faculties of...
View ArticleA Big Truth: “I Don’t Know”
My husband says, “If you don’t know what you don’t know, then you are dangerous.” That bit of wisdom is important….but it requires some effort to puzzle through what it means. Although he is...
View ArticleSuicide Prevention—Be COMFORT for those who Struggle
Suicide is a terrible thing, because it is the taking of a life and also because it leaves a lasting, troubling impact on others. Our faith tells us that the taking of one’s own life is objectively a...
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